Hello folks. We're back on the shorelines this lovely summer day as we're rigged and baited up to catch common carp. We're ...

When should you use octopus, circle, barbless, single siwash, and treble hooks? What's the difference between them, and ...

When a fish grabs a bait quickly, you can set the hook before it spits the bait. Since switching to these from circle hooks during the mullet run, I have dramatically increased my hookups.

When all else fails, cut the line and give the fish a fighting chance. Circle hooks are designed to catch in the side of a fish's mouth, reducing the chance of a fish swallowing a hook.

That was the assumption when fishery managers created a rule in 2020 requiring anglers to use circle hooks when fishing with bait for striped bass. Some preliminary studies from the late 1990s ...