Tony i ve been using circle hooks for a couple of years fishing for seatrout and reds.
Circle hooks for sea trout.
A lot of trout fishermen will swear by the same size shape and brand of hook for all of their fishing lives.
So a larger hook can be 2 4 6x thicker that a smaller trout hook.
A circle hook tied on the leader with a loop knot e g.
The hook gauge is the thickness of the hook wire itself.
Thankfully there s the spotted sea trout an inshore species prized both for its willingness to strike lures and its flavor on the dinner table.
You can buy the one you prefer for fishing.
Circle hooks are recommended for trout fishing both because they are good for the fish less swallowed hooks easier to get the hook out and because the toughest part of the trouts mouth is near the corner.
While circle hooks do not work well on actively fished artificial lures and plugs they can be used in almost any presentation that uses live or natural bait.
They also work.
Gamakatsu trout worm is especially designed with a small but enough gaps and is the ideal hook for those soft plastic finesse worms that need an excellent wine hook for slight presentations.
However having a small variety in your tackle box is definitely the best approach.
For example a 2x hook is twice as strong as a normal gauge hook.
The majority of hooks for trout will be single hooks.
When speckled trout are biting they are biting and the fastest way to keep catching them is to do exactly that.
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Sea trout season opened on jan.
I use a loop knot on straight circle hooks and snell the octopus style circle hooks.
Just because eagle claw s lazer sharp circles l2004el sizes 4 0 to 7 0 are perfect for anglers fishing with live mullet inshore or trokar lancet circle hooks tk4 ranging from 5 0 to 7 0 are prime for chunking baits to mahi that doesn t mean that mustad.
Trout have notoriously soft mouths and many times the hook simply pulls free after gouging a large whole in the fish s mouth.
Falkus stated that a sea trout hook should have a medium to large barb and a firm strike would be necessary but the circle hook design negates the need for a barb or firm strike.
The gauge is calculated by using x.
A rapala knot is the most efficient method for finding a good purchase in the fish s jaw.
Recently i have hit a streak of fouled circle hooks that hooked back into the bait and resulted in pulling the bait out of the fish s mouth.
Unfortunately anglers cannot trust that hooks labeled with the same number from different manufacturers are equally sized.
This is a standard measurement and is calculated in multiples.
Fishermen using live bait for speckled trout redfish or trophy largemouth bass find them deadly.
The gamakatsu trout worm hook has in four sizes.