Owner or Gamakatsu???????

[alwaysbendo]

Owner treble hooks and mustad for everything else

[Jig Strike]

Mustad 94150 for everything.

Sharp point. Healthy sized barb. Pretty bronze color.
$10 for a fist full.
What more could you ask for.

[Omarkayak]

Them Mustard hooks are gooood. Offset bronze usually, but for some reason the nickel plated work well with 'dines.

Other than that, whatever they make exceptions for in MPAs.

Oh, yeah, NOT!

Good Fishin'!
BDC OK

[mikeyairtime]

The harder you think the worst you'll fish. I prefer pointy.

[calicokiller15]

mustads rust and owners dont.
why leave a hook in a fish forever?
i have noticed owners and gamagatsu are too shard and rip too large of a hole in the fishs mouth.
ringed hooks are another story i love em.
mustad=#1
Ringed anything=#2
hooks are hooks

[Mo]

Both are good. Why switch if Gami is working?

[1basschris]

Ive had a lot of owners break on me. Never had a gamma break. Love mustad ultra point awesome hook at a great price.

[yessokk]

Turdroller,,You hit the nail on the head. The barbs on the Owner Flyliners are way too small. After popping of more than a half a dozen quality local Yellowtail and Yellowfin last year, I made the switch to Gamakatsu and I haven't lost a fish so far once it's been hooked.

Still looking around for the right hook for me. It's definitely not Owners.

DIttoDiTTo Dittttto.

Off shore on a 2 day and kept loosing bait, could not keep one on the hook.
Then I started looking at the barb on my 2/0 Owner and could not belive how small it was. I immediately switched back to my Eagle Claw 118MFG's and the problem stopped. After that day I went home and acutally and put a micormeter on the barb. The owner barb was protruding about half the distance of the Eagle Claw. I also like the Mustad 94150's

After that I started looking closely at the barbs of all the 2/0's I was
considering buying. The Mustad's , Eagle Claw's, Gamahatsu's and any other
brand that I looked at all had much better barbs then the Owner's. That was it, I trashed all the Owner's I had left. I could not keep my concience clear if I gave them to another off shore mate. The owner's will also cut an over sized hole upon penetration, take a look at the point it has side protrusions that cut a wider hole when penetrating making it easier to shake
the hook out due the the undersized barb.

As a side note on hook sharpness: Almost all hooks are adequately sharp out of the box some are just more adequate then others. Some times you have to hit them with a stone or file to get that fine point and that includes owner hooks.

Now if you really want sharp hooks take your hook and lightly drag it over
your thumb nail. If it just slides over it and does not stick your hook is
adequately sharp but not optimally sharp. That hook should stick in you
nail with no downward pressure. To get that perfect stick anything point
on your hook you have to sharpen them yourself.
The link below will take you to the promised land.
It's pricy I know, but my wonderful wife got
it for me as a birthday present.

Texas Tackle Home Page

Check out the link showing the microscopic pics of hook points.

I know a lot of you guys are very skilled with a stone or a file but if
you are a klutz like me this tool works wonders. I love it.

Walt

[Rabid Fish]

The type of hook you use is way more important than the brand.


In my experience, the best hooks for tuna fishing are

Sardines: size 1 for med/small ones to size 3/0 for big ones, with 2/0 a good go-to
Chovies: I do size 1 or 2 depending on the size



I don't use big thick hooks. The traditional mustad style live bait hook (gamakatsu, hayabusa, owner, all good) works great. You don't need any stupid ringed hooks, and you don't need any of those owner gorilla circle hooks that are massively thick. Circle hooks are fine, just not the uber thick ones. Nice, simple, low profile hooks matched to the bait.


For inshore species, all sorts of hooks are good for all sorts of applications, I couldn't name them all nor do I know them all

[troutman775]

the sharpness of a hook doesnt matter when you set the hook on a fish. ive caught big fish on rusted dull hooks better then sharp new ones. Go with mustad