How small do you go?

[Huss Hustler]

For my favourite mark we're usually after Thornies, Hounds, Huss & Tope during the warmer months & Codling during the winter.
So big baits & big hooks.
5/0 or 6/0 Manta Xtra's or Varivas BMX's on a pulley rig with the addition of a 3/0 Chinu for the top hook if using a pennell set up. Partly to try & keep the Ting & Doggies off, partly because of the height we are above water (it's a stilted pier) & partly because of the tide run.
At the other end of the scale, i love a bit of lrf type fishing during the Summer so often using anything from a size 6 down to a 14 then.
Rick?

 

[Timbc2]

Yep same as Rick pretty much. If I'm after little gobies, etc, to get my species count up then I might go very small. I bought a box of a 100 tiny mixed hooks from the Philipines off Ebay. They work great but they do not have English sizes on them so I don't really know how small I'm going. I'd say about size 16 are the smallest I've used up to now as I've not yet had the desire to chase pipefish or 15-spined stickle backs yet.

 

[Beach]

Size 1& 2 for bream, pollock, mackerel. 1/0 & 2/0 for doggies, bass, codling, smoothhounds etc.

 

[Beach]

When I worked in Grenada, Caribbean (West Indies) way back when. I would use off the beach/rocks 2/0 for barracuda, snapper, kingfish, small tuna etc.
In a boat I would use 8/0 for swordfish, marlin, tuna and shark.
Sometimes a Dexter & Redgills with my spinning rods for Spanish mackerel and anything else that decided to have a go at them.

 

[Craig]

I'm much the same as Rick, upto 6/0 for bigger stuff from the rocks and the boats. But if I'm after smaller stuff like wrasse or fatties, I use size 1 kamasan b940s, been using these alot on the boats last year too with great success.