high-end hooks

[RIROCKHOUND]

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....

[PurpelNoon]

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.

[Water Treater]

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?

[Mr. Sandman]

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.

[Water Treater]

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