What steals hooks?

[Maurice]

Spent a lovely evening on the west arm of Brighton marina on Saturday. Fresh air good conversation and a pizza, unfortunately no fish. During the course of the night my mate and I must have lost 4 hooks off rigs which had the line cut ir chewed through. Any ideas what did this as we were both at a loss .

[maghouse]

Crabs !

Nearly always down to crabs - they snip through the line normally at the hook end - regular problem unfortunatley ....

[Muzzer]

Spiders!

[lazy hooker]

definatley spider crabs...horrible culprits

john

[Old Smoothound]

Spider Crabs.

To get around the problem use low breaking strain braid. They'll never cut that!!

[Greenheart]

You only lost 4 hooks? You got of lightly. I lost about a dozen in one session at Chesil last year.

[baitmaster]

i had this happen when we were at selsey meet last year and gullyworm informed me it was spider crabs snipping them off


tightlines
kevin

[gullyworm]

Aliens

[Omahayank]

not a problem in NE LOL

[monkey nuts]

i get this happen a lot around the solent at this time of year
last year i lost loads cuttle fish at the side of the boat around april and may , then later in the spring we get the hords of spider crabs doing it