circle hooks

[patpatriot]

Your question gets me thinking, I have been making some simple lures and my dad used a circle hook for the tail, i am going to replace it with a single j-style hook. I may be wrong but i believe the circle hook was primarily developed for bait fishing, most fish swipe at the lure and having that open hook to catch the lip(or with blitzing blues often their gill plate) is best. I never have gut hooked fish on lures. The natural way you retrieve lures at a faster pace usually means the fish get hooked in the lip, if I hear that circle hooks increase hookups I'd switch, I just can't believe thats the case .

[robc22]

I don't think it will work with plugs......I did see a guy trying it with either a shimano butterfly jig or it was a diawa sacrific tin....don't know how he did......he was fishing the circles asist style.....

[Raven]

Originally Posted by robc22

I don't think it will work with plugs......

the circle hook works like a sleigh runner so the bend rides
the surface ....

i think it can work as a trailer/teaser hook ....but it may need
Something flexible to extend it out a bit...

note:

i'll never forget watching a BOBCAT fish...
he'd reach down and try to catch surfacing fish
with his paw curled so his nail of choice would
just snag a scale and then he could flip it
out of the water...
very much like a circle hooks design...