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Posted on: Sep 15, 2009
Posted in: Hooks, Lazer Sharp, News From Chris
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Just got back from a fishing and hunting excursion to New York. Yeah, I know…New York?
You’re thinking bright lights and big cities but I experienced the Finger Lakes region and lots of forests and agriculture.
I had the great pleasure of fishing Owasco Lake near the town of Auburn and caught some nice lake trout. On the second day of our fishing we had some motor problems and ended up drifting into some shallows why we waited for help. The water there is super clear and there were hundreds of perch feeding in the shallow grass beds. The problem with this some fish can be super finicky in clear water and in fact they kept stealing our worms and small pieces of cut bait.
To correct the problem I broke out some Eagle Claw Circle Bait Hooks and started catching the small perch and rock bass immediately. Nearly every fish that hit ended up getting hook. With the standard j-style hooks we were using we maybe got one fish per 10 strikes. The circle hooks made a big difference. You hear very little about using circle hooks for panfish but that is about to change. They are not only great for conserving catches of big fish by hooking them in the corner of the mouth but also increase the number of fish landed.
The author and a beautiful yellow perch caught on an Eagle Claw
Circle Bait Hook.
With Eagle Claw Circle hooks, the large number means larger hooks.