Gardner Tackle Specialist Hand Sharpened Covert Dark Hooks

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The legendary Covert Dark hooks are now available with a beautifully hand sharpened point.

Each hook has been individually honed, personally by the country’s leading hook sharpening expert Jason Hayward of Specialist Sharpened Hooks.

We’ve upgraded to a micro barb on all the new Covert Dark Hooks. This offers two major benefits. Firstly, many commercial fisheries require anglers to use patterns with small barbs as it is kinder to the fish’s mouth, and secondly micro barbed hooks are stronger as less wire is cut out to form the barb.

Covert Dark Mugga:

The re-profiled/honed hook point on each of these Specialist Sharpened Mugga hooks optimises rig and hooking efficiency at several key levels. From pricking and the way the hook takes a secure initial hold, to the critical manner in which the hook penetrates fully, cleanly and quickly, to offer the best possible hook holds without giving the fish opportunity to shake the hook out.

If you’re dedicating a huge amount of effort, time and money for a dream big fish or targeting particularly tricky carp, then these very special hooks will certainly make a difference to long term results when used correctly. It’s simply the case that you’re gaining another few percent in trying to attain the absolute highest possible efficiency in your angling. Without doubt the enhanced hook points offer a discernible edge. Covert Dark Continental Mugga:

The re-profiled/honed hook point on each of these Specialist Sharpened Continental Mugga hooks optimises rig and hooking efficiency at several key levels. From pricking and the way the hook takes a secure initial hold, to the critical manner in which the hook penetrates fully, cleanly and quickly, to offer the best possible hook holds without giving the fish opportunity to shake the hook out.

In practice the honed points actually enhance the practical strength of this monumentally powerful hook pattern by making certain the hook has the greatest opportunity to take hold fully, burying securely and minimising the chance of opening out under extreme pressure. This is particularly important when you first pick the rod up to a big fish in weedy or snaggy conditions.

If you’re an angler who is dedicating a huge amount of effort, time and money for a dream big fish or targeting particularly tricky carp, then these very special hooks will certainly make a difference to long term results when used correctly. It’s simply the case that you will be gaining another few percent in trying to attain the absolute highest possible efficiency in your angling. Without doubt the enhanced hook points offer a discernible edge. Covert Dark Chod Hooks:

Whether you choose to use the Chod hook pattern in conjunction with a pop up style presentation like a Hinged Stiff Rigor Chod Rig, or with bottom bait using a stiff hooklink like a classic D-Rig (clone rig) the re-profiled/honed hook point on each of these Specialist Sharpened Chod hooks optimises rig and hooking efficiency at several key levels. From pricking and the way the hook takes a secure initial hold, to the critical manner in which the hook penetrates fully, cleanly and quickly to offer the best possible hook holds without giving the fish opportunity to shake the hook out.

In practice the honed points actually enhance the practical strength of this extremely strong hook pattern by making certain the hook has the greatest opportunity to take hold fully, burying securely and minimising the chance of opening out under extreme pressure.

If you’re an angler who is dedicating a huge amount of effort, time and money for a dream big fish or targeting particularly tricky carp, then these very special hooks will certainly make a difference to long term results when used correctly. It’s simply the case that you will be gaining another few percent in trying to attain the absolute highest possible efficiency in your angling. Without doubt the enhanced hook points offer a discernible edge. Covert Dark Wide Gape Talon Tip Hooks:

The hooks design offers amazing strength and is a versatile and reliable pattern.

The combination of a 5° in-turned eye and the beaked point on the Wide Gape Talon Tip certainly creates extremely positive hook holds as the angle is set at the optimum angle of drawer to make sure the hook goes in and stays in. Essentially the way in which the hook penetrates, as it is pulled in by the directional force created by the hook eye, is simply perfect.

The major advantage of a beaked point relates to how the point first takes hold. When it starts to grip the angle of the point naturally helps keep the hook point in position, even if the fish is trying to shake the rig free (this is particularly useful if you’re angling on a barbless rules venue). Another benefit is that the point is less likely to be turned over or damaged when you fishing over gravel or other rough types of lake bed, typically big stones that make up spoil bars on gravel pits.

Manufactured from the same ‘bomb proof’ super strong forged wire of the original Talon Tip patterns.