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Re: Hooks for live bait [Re: Cigga] #13563449 05/19/20 01:16 PM
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4/0 (mostly) Gamakatsu Octopus. When I started transitioning over from catfishin most of the time, I used circle hooks. That came to a screechin' halt after about two trips.

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3/0 Owner Tournament Light circle hooks. When I started live bait fishing for stripers and hybrids I was using 1/0 circle hooks and was losing some fish. I would get some in and see that they were hooked in the skin just inside the mouth and the circle hook did not wrap around the jaw. Switched to the larger 3/0 and have not had an issue losing fish and almost all are hooked solidly in the jaw.


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Khale hook no bigger than a 3/0 for me when fishing live bait for hybrids.


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Re: Hooks for live bait [Re: Cigga] #13565892 05/21/20 03:41 AM
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I've tried the 3/0 owner light circle hook this past weekend. Worked good. Had a couple sandbass that still got gut hooked, few that swallowed the whole bait and hook but didnt get hooked. They would just fall off the hook when I pull them out of the water. Also got alot of misses, which is fine for me cause I really weren't targeting sandbass. I catch so many of them and only keep the gut hooked ones. And that, still gives me plenty of sandbass to take home between the live bait, lures and slabs. The reason I wanted to use live bait was cause I heard the hybrids only biting shad right now. After 2 years of not catching one, I finally got one with the shad. Circle hook was where it suppose to be. In the corner of the mouth. Caught it on the last shad I had left. Sandbass made me go through my bait really fast. I may try the octopus and khale hooks but really don't care too much to increase my hookup ratios for sandbass. I'm fine with the circle hook getting swallowed and getting pulled out of the sandbass mouth without harm. If only my shad could survive that process, it would be great.

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Originally Posted by Cigga
I've tried the 3/0 owner light circle hook this past weekend. Worked good. Had a couple sandbass that still got gut hooked, few that swallowed the whole bait and hook but didnt get hooked. They would just fall off the hook when I pull them out of the water. Also got alot of misses, which is fine for me cause I really weren't targeting sandbass. I catch so many of them and only keep the gut hooked ones. And that, still gives me plenty of sandbass to take home between the live bait, lures and slabs. The reason I wanted to use live bait was cause I heard the hybrids only biting shad right now. After 2 years of not catching one, I finally got one with the shad. Circle hook was where it suppose to be. In the corner of the mouth. Caught it on the last shad I had left. Sandbass made me go through my bait really fast. I may try the octopus and khale hooks but really don't care too much to increase my hookup ratios for sandbass. I'm fine with the circle hook getting swallowed and getting pulled out of the sandbass mouth without harm. If only my shad could survive that process, it would be great.

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That's because you didn't use 4/0 Gama Oct.

In all seriousness though, I've had days where Hybrids will only eat live shad and I've had days where cut shad outfished live. Easily. If I know I'm on Hybrids, I'll have both out. I generally don't use shad that a sand bass can swallow, though.

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