Hehe...knew it'd be aunty who bit first (fish on) -

I've only ever deleted one thread, remember?? The one where you called me a liar??

This is so infantile, I've been attacked for expressing my opinion and sharing my experience with other fishermen, the essence of what a BB like this is supposed to be.

At this point its no longer about the hooks, its about integrity and I feel a brief (ha) diatribe coming on.

Vision hooks (another plug) have communicated with me about the hooks (that I didn't even buy). They communicated with me through the nefarious "deleted post", I have never referred to the company negatively. They have acted with the utmost integrity toward me personally and addressed my concerns about the integrity of their 1/0 Siwash hook product.

The current burr in my saddle is with the "attack" mindset present on this mostly excellent BB. Your discouragement of counter opinions ideas and positions is stifling to the over all benefit of this BB. I belong to several other BB's and guess what, we argue about stuff all the time. The purpose of the arguments or discussions is to further understand both sides of the issues you disagree about we do it with integrity, not little anger emoticons and veiled threats at physical harm.

That said I am 100% through with this subject unless someone questions the integrity of any post I have made. In that case I will again defend myself vigorously and with reluctant respect for my attacker...