MS..
I dont fluke seriously.. usually an hour or two before work to eat...
we dont get a ton of doggies here when fluking (when codding yuck) but they arent a huge hassle here in he summer flukin... besides in my 13ft skiff I cant get to the deep holes outside the bay...

As far as cheap rigs... I use my own....

I can count he number of fluke trips I made last year on two hands, and since I never got around to using mummies, never used the gold...

Now a green/white spro with a fluke belly... yippe....

But to each his own....

I thought titanium was flexible? An upgrade for my aluminum seat stem on my mountain bike was made from titanium as it stated it is not only lighter but flexes.

Today in our lab at work I weighed a 4X 1/0 VMC treble hook and a 1/0 4X Owner Power Point treble hook.

The Owner Power Point treble hook looks a lot beefier than the VMC treble yet both are rated " 4x".

The 4X VMC 1/0 treble weighed 2.14 grams while the 4X Owner treble weighed 3.2 grams. That's 50% greater!

I'm going to try the Owner Power Points next season. They are recommended by Leo Orsi, Sr. in his book STRIPER CHRONICLES.

The author suggests replacing factory-supplied hooks on striper plugs with OWNER Power Point trebles. Maybe Leo Orsi has no experience with VMC trebles?

Does VMC (or owner) make a open eye treble? Generally I don't care for open eye hooks (never have) but I like to keep some on my boat for the quick change outs and I notice a lot of other guys do too. But I have always used the mustads, I consider them disposable and ok for bluefish.

Mr. Sandman,

I don't know.

When fishing from my boat I almost never use lures with treble hooks and when I fish the surf at night I'm not capable of changing hooks on the spot.

Maybe someone else following this thread will know if VMC or OWNER makes an open-eye treble hook.

Bill