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stormfish · 09-11-2006, 04:29 PM

Fishing 1 spring day and hooking shorts after shorts with 10/0 octopus hooks and gutt hooked about 6 and 4 of them ended up floaters. Switched to 7/0 circle hooks and success rate was 1 for 3. Not to mention the 1 of missed hook set was the biggest fight of the day I was reeling in for 2 minutes before the fished spat out the bait and hook.

The trick to circle hooks from what I hear is to keep reeling in without and the hook will manage it's way on the corner of the fish mouth. The only bright side is that it doesn't end up in the fish's guts. Down side is having a story of the 1 that got away.

If riggin with eels I do recommend the live bait hooks.

09-11-2006, 04:29 PM	#8
stormfish Registered User iTrader: (0) Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 269	My Circle Hook story Fishing 1 spring day and hooking shorts after shorts with 10/0 octopus hooks and gutt hooked about 6 and 4 of them ended up floaters. Switched to 7/0 circle hooks and success rate was 1 for 3. Not to mention the 1 of missed hook set was the biggest fight of the day I was reeling in for 2 minutes before the fished spat out the bait and hook. The trick to circle hooks from what I hear is to keep reeling in without and the hook will manage it's way on the corner of the fish mouth. The only bright side is that it doesn't end up in the fish's guts. Down side is having a story of the 1 that got away. If riggin with eels I do recommend the live bait hooks.
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