The Graviers Wide Gape TIC Hook
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TIC Hooks are sold in packs of 20.
Size 6, 4 & 2 are now in stock.
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UK 1 x pack of 20 TIC hooks £13.00 + £2.00 p&p
2 to 10 packs of TIC hooks the postage increases to £4.00 p&p
Euro 1x pack of 20 TIC hooks €15.00 + €2.00 p&p
2 to 10 packs of TIC hooks the postage increases to €4.00 p&p
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Payments are by bank transfer, these hooks are sold direct from the Fishery in Dijon.
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0rders by email please Thegraviersdijon@gmail.com
#Tic hooks, #Carp hooks, #wide gape.
#Tick hooks. #Nano barb
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Released July 2022.......The Graviers Tic hook is set be the ultimate game changing, problem solving hook for today’s Carp angler…. an anti ejection hook specifically designed for use with the “self hooking” rigs we all use in modern day Carp fishing, and to target those rig wise Carp…. In fact it’s almost an unfair advantage!
All other Carp hooks have barbs of similar sizes, and located in similar positions below the hook point…. and these types of hook require considerable applied pressure to penetrate beyond their barbs to obtain a secure and non ejectable hook hold…. and that’s even if they are mega sharp !!
You know when a Carp picks your rig up, especially when fishing longer distances…. it’s your lead you are relying on to hopefully get the hook point to penetrate beyond the barb and become non ejectable, and because of that hopefully causing the fish to then bolt…. giving you the take back at the rod.
Proof, just look at the ridiculous sized leads (8 ounces +) some anglers use where they can get away with it, just to ensure they pop that barb through when a fish picks up their rig.
Things were different 25 / 30 years ago…. before the evolution of today’s modern Carp rigs, not many fish had learnt how to eject our hooks before they panicked and bolted, as basically they had just not been fished for as much with these modern types of rigs back then.
Now add 25 years of experience in picking up these semi fixed bolt rigs to that, and you will realize that your dealing with a different reality now… They have learnt how to eject your hooks!
The Tics new “Nano” barb technology twinned with it’s needle sharp point and back up main Micro barb guarantee an instant penetration and fixation that stays attached even with the most cautious of feeding Carp, and even when using the lightest of carp leads!
This instant fixation of the Nano barb prevents hook ejection at those critical few seconds a fish picks up the rig and realizes there’s a hook in it’s mouth.
This results in a considerably higher percentage of positive bite indications, and successful hook up’s. ..and as mentioned particularly from all those tentative feeding wary Carp that have become so good at ejecting our hooks these days when only the tip of the point is in!
The Tics Nano barb is positioned much closer to the needle sharp
hook point, which changes everything on the pick up….
Leads as small as 1.2oz / 34g will penetrate the Nano barb, resulting
in an instant non ejectable hook hold and a positive bite indication
back at the rod…..
The main Micro barb is then popped through as the angler tightens up
and play’s the fish…. as it would do with the conventional Carp hooks
you are using at the moment… If you had even got the bite that is!
Surely you must have wondered with all those other carp hooks how
many fish are spitting that hook out and getting away with it before
you actually get any indication back at the rod, because the barb has
not taken hold on the pick up? …. I bet that drives you crazy.
The Graviers Tic hook has been designed and introduced by Luke Moffatt of The Graviers fishery, in Dijon, France, renowned for his stance on fish care and safety at his fishery…..
Luke, and freinds carried out extensive testing of this hook before it’s release.
Testing not only for damage risk assessment and hook strength compared to other barbed Carp hooks ….but also for it’s effectiveness and superiority in successful hook up’s when compared to other standard barbed Carp hooks.
Mouth damage assessment
The Graviers Tic Hook was tested extensively along side other popular brand barbed Carp hooks and was found to cause NO more damage than other standard barbed Carp hooks.
Effectively the Nano barb, despite it’s initial efficient hold, proved extremely easy to remove from captured fish due to it’s small size… as the hole eventually created by the hooks main wire diameter and 2nd barb during the fight, would obviously be larger than that made by the tiny Nano barb itself.
Note;
During damage assessment testing, 27 Carp were caught on the same size 6 Tic hook before the point of the hook required light sharpening… the same hook then went on to catch a further 14 fish before eventually being changed for a fresh one.
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Additional: Febuary 2024:
So it's now been 18 months since the release of the Tic hooks, and there are a lot of anglers switching over to the Tic's from their old "faithful" patterns. Most of the people I speak to are trying to keep it as quiet as they can because they have now realized what an edge to their fishing this hook really is!
Lots of feed back telling of increased catch rates, and captures of difficult fish, incredible screaming takes and increased indication on normally slow "long wait" waters..... and even a few stories from anglers that have caught fish from their club waters that everyone thought had died years ago !!
Reports too of great hook holds, and most importantly no additional mouth damage when unhooking fish caught on the Tic's.
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Hook strength testing
Time was also taken to test the Tic's strength against other popular Carp hooks, and as expected due to the high quality carbon forged steel resulted in an above average score for the Tic hook's overall strength.
But these strength tests were also done to test the strength of the Tic's point, because of that revolutionary positioning of the extra Nano barb.
Results showed that the extra Nano barb has not weakened the hook point at all due to it’s small size, and the precision cutting used to form it.
So effectively the hooks “Nerve” has not been compromised by the Nano barb…. and it’s the Nerve of a hook that gives it it’s strength during the forging process.
Effectiveness testing
Each hook was tied to a nylon hook link, and carefully positioned on the soft flesh at the side of the interior of a Carp’s mouth, with the tip of the point just resting on the surface of the skin….
(These tests were carried out on a fish that had died naturally at the fishery)
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Lead weights, gradually increasing in size were then carefully attached to the other end of the rig and suspended below the hooks position to evaluate exactly how much weight was required for each hook to penetrate beyond the barb, and effectively become “non ejectable”.
In the chart below you can see that the other popular Carp hooks used in the effectiveness tests required a least 4 times the weight, and more in most cases... to penetrate beyond the barb and establish a secure and non ejectable hook hold.
This hook will obviously not please the barbless hook brigade… but I’m convinced it will rapidly find it’s place at the top end of the barbed hook domain, and I’m sure that most Carp anglers will be easily convinced of it’s capabilities.
The Hand Test
For those who have the courage… a simple test is to stick the hook in the back of your hand, and once the Nano barb has penetrated just try and shake it out, it’s virtually impossible!
Try it yourself… no teeth gritting required, the Nano barb pop’s in easily and does not even hurt.
Even a dedicated “Power Wanker” would struggle to shake the Tic hook out of his hand once the Nano is in… even at full speed!
So, why “TIC” ? …..Well, in the insect world the parasitical Tick will lie in wait with it’s Nano barbed legs extended out to latch on to any thing that brushes against it…. you can’t feel it attach itself, but once it is attached, it stays attached.
