He don’t know no other; he fishes with Hook Angels.
He calls them all by name; Gold or Red they are all the same.
Sometimes, he even uses Angel Aids in strange company.
He wears a cross around his neck, it’s from someone he has not met; not yet.
He fishes with Hook Angels.

The history behind Hook Angels starts with one angler wanting to design a weight that would make his soft plastic lures sink and swim naturally. It would replace the need for nail weights, spilt shots or worm weights and an angler would not have to cut their line every time to change the size of the weight. A weight that an angler could do it all with yet be small, compact and simple to use. After some initial trial and errors, James Ferriss, owner of Hook Angel, came up with an innovative weight that is now known as Hook Angel.

Hook Angel (www.hookangel.com) is a unique, patent pending fishing weight that can be used with any soft plastic lure to change the rate of fall or create the perfect falling action. It makes the soft plastic lures appear alive. The small compact tungsten weight comes in two different sizes including 1/32-ounce that has a gold finish and 1/16-ounce that has a red finish. To put on the hook, the angler merely slides it over top of the hook barb and twists it to keep it from falling off. “The Hook Angel began as a weight to replace the nail weight in my lure; I needed something that was easy to put on and take off my hook, but not too big,” said Ferriss. Now, the Hook Angel can be used when rigging a wacky worm, soft stick bait, soft jerk bait, plastic worms, tubes, spinnerbaits, or any lure that needs weight added to it. “The Hook Angels are designed so that anglers can use just one or with any number of them to create the perfect falling action,” Ferriss continued, “it’s great for depths up to 20 feet deep or windy days to help keep your lures down and its made from tungsten making it extremely small.”

Another important design of the Hook Angel was the final colors selected for them. “I pick the Hook Angel color patterns on purpose because it’s important for increasing the number of strikes an angler will get. The red Hook Angel weight imitates blood and maintains their color even in deep water. On the other hand, gold Hook Angel weights are very attractive on sunny days creating a gold flash,” explained Ferriss. Besides color, Ferriss noted that Hook Angel weights could be used with almost every hook making it extreme versatile and if an angler wants the tungsten hook weight to stay in place to utilize the Angel Aides.

Ferriss uses the Hook Angel year round and not just for spawning bass when fishing a wacky worm. “There are so many different ways of using them. If you rig a swimbait just right with a Hook Angel it will fall horizontally giving it a lifelike appearance or an angler can put two on to make the lure have a clicking sound; it’s really just up to the angler’s imagination when it comes to rigging,” said Ferriss.

Ferriss likes to rig his wacky worm on 30-pound braid or 15-pound test fluorocarbon line on a 6½-foot rod and uses a baitcasting reel. “If I was rigging it for Lake Fork in Texas, I would use a #3- or #4 J style hook with one gold tungsten Hook Angel weight with a 7-inch gold flake trick worm hooked wacky style,” said Ferriss. Another technique Ferriss has success with is to cast out a 5½-inch wacky worm hooked through the egg sack with one of the tungsten Hook Angel weights and just let it fall to the bottom and drag it 3- or 4-inches repeatedly all the way back pausing between pulling it’s just like a Carolina rig. “The trick to using this technique is to make a U-shape in the worm by bringing the hook tip back in to the body of the wacky worm making it weedless and snag proof,” explained Ferriss.

If that was the end of the story it would be amazing in itself, but it doesn’t end there. Before Ferriss had a name for his tungsten worm weight, he was traveling 100 miles north to the patent agents office and on the return trip Misty, Ferriss’ wife came up with the name Hook Angel. The following day while traveling south to work a young man passed Ferriss in a pickup truck and on the back glass of the truck was Proverbs 22:6. Believing there was a connection Ferriss looked up the verse once he got to the office. After reading it Ferriss gave thanks and grinned from ear to ear the rest of the day. “The message I take from this is to spend time and take your children out fishing and just rewards will befall on both you and your children,” said Ferriss.

From that day forward, Ferriss has ended all his communications with the phrase-Blessed be your fishing future!

Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. (KJV)