Gut hooked bass

[Hooper]

Remember, with circle hooks never haul back to drive the hook home, just reel, nothing else. When the line comes tight, you'll have him. We used these in Panama this winter to take yellowfin tuna, sailfish and black marlin on live bonito. A bass will have no trouble eating a pogie with a circle hook.

[ThrowingTimber]

Parker we ran into that problem live lining shad, believe it or not but switching to 4/0 & or 5/0 trebles the hook was able to find a home faster and therefor helped avoid gut hooking the fish.