Thread: hooks for striper

Those are the hooks that I use when I'm striper fishing too, but I just change hook size according to bait size. When the fish want little 3" shad in the dead of winter, I use #2 or #1 hooks and I use up to a 2/0 hook. If I'm pulling big gizzard shad, then I use a treble sometimes. I also when pulling real frisky baits like big herring and threadfin, will go in the nouth and out the top of the nostrils to cut down on the hooks turning back when you do a horizontal nose hook. From what I've seen Gamakatsus are the lightest wire that is still strong which is important for good hookups. And that is my .02!

ive been using 2/0 gamagatsu octopusses for about a year now and been having good sucess with em..

Are these circle hooks?

no. a octopus hook isnt a circle hook, however there is a octopus circle, but what im using arent circles, just octopus.

eagle claw also makes an octopus of which i tried and dint like. i tried a box and the snell was bent too far down the shank and when id tighten the snell up, the line would be cut on the end of the hook where the line eye was crimped around. it might have been a defective box that got by quality control.

http://www.crappie.com/gr8vb3/showth...=hooks+striper

i use a 2 staneless steel hooks in the day it puts off a shine plus the bait a plus

have you guys tried the gamakatsu shiner hooks these hooks almost always hook the fish in the corner of the mouth like a circle hook, but you can still set the hook like with a j-hook(octopuss)