I have been testing a number of circle hook brands and models for use in a lure prototype. I ran some tests with the offset EC 2004F vs the EC 2004 inline over the last month. At first I was encouraged by the hookup % with the offsets but quickly encountered instances of fish becoming unpinned during the fight. The inline circles had no such occurances. I don't know that maybe the hook was sticking into fleshier areas or the hook design itself lended to unpinned fish, but I thought I would ask the question here.
Can anyone collaborate or dispel the opinion that the offsets lend themselves to unpinned fish?
Last edited by Barefootin; 08-19-2009 at 07:22 PM.
Well, let me try to understand; an offset hook that has a much better chance to snag a fleshy part, throat or stomach of a fish has a lesser chance of breaking free than an inline circle in the jaw or corner of a fish's mouth?
If you were just meat fishing; offset over inline for hookup % and landing?
Thanks for your insight,
I have fished offset circles for everything for the last three years, from spadefish to mackeral to rockfish to cobia to tuna to swordfish and whatever else and can honestly say I may have had a dozen or so hook pulls but that is it, once they are on they are on, I have gut hooked one drum in the past three years, and it was barely hooked, and it only happened because I thought it was a cobia and I was letting him eat it for a full minute, I have tried inlines one time and that was for tarpon, and we didn't get a bite so it didn't matter, so I can't say much for them, well we did catch a few sharks and rays on them but that is it.
You'll hook more with the offsets. Once hooked though the inlines will produce higher percentage of landings. What we have seen with the inline is the fact that they hit the deck if the line doesn't break once hooked up
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