Cirlce hooks

[BIG DAVE 1]

i bought some cirlce hooks and i think mine are a bit to circular. i dunno if they wil work. has anyone on here used circle hooks? ive seen there a great shark hook.

DAVE

[Feral]

Its all I use for bait fishing these days, would not go back to standard hooks.

[rayke1938]

I prefer big mouth/wide gap using mustad for freshwater as they are a fine hook and do not damage shrimp and gamatsu for squire etc in the bay. I find that they are very rarely swallowed and mostly hook the fish in the side of the mouth and are easy to release.

ray

[blue_mako]

feral... dont you mean big mouth hooks??? circles are different to those... we have lost more fish when using circles...

troy

[Feral]

Big mouth is a circle hook (to me anyway). Any hook where the point comes back to point at the eye (or further) is a circle hook in my book.

Post edited by: Feral, at: 2006/07/27 20:55

[blue_mako]

Feral, theres quite a few differences between them... circle hooks are much more chunky and strong where as big mouth hooks bend very easily... also big mouth hooks are more of a constant turn through-out the hook (besides the shank) and circle hooks have quite a sudden almost 90 degree right angle bend at the hook tip back towards the shank... but yeh if circle hooks are what you wanna call them, it's fine with me, just remember to say big mouth hooks if you end up talking about them again on the site

When I used to fish for good sized estaury cod of my balcony at Nudgee Beach we, we used to use big mouths and most of the time used to hook them right down there gob where their throat thing splits into two. I dunno if anyone else has looked inside an estaury cods mouth but yeah.

Picture of a circle hook:
/>http://www.asmfc.org/images/circleHookWebsm.jpg

Picture of a big mouth hook:
/>http://www.campbellsprotackle.com/store/images/mustad_bigmouth.jpg

cheers mate, Troy

[werewolf]

BUMP:P

Look what I found in the random window, a debate about circles:)

Troy: you say you have lost a lot with circles? What were you targeting, what size hook, what bait???