Buy Eagle Claw Circle Hooks

Circle Hook Design Pierces Fish Through Jaw,
Promotes Catch and Release.

Circle hooks have to be fished differently than regular hooks. When you feel the fish take the bait, don't hard set the hook, just raise the rod and start reeling in your line in one rapid movement.

As the fish swims away, your line will tighten, the circle hook will begin to be pulled out of the fish's gut and throat and as the hook begins to exit the mouth cavity, the perpendicular hook point catches the bony jaw structure.

In the beginning, you may lose a few fish because most us have learned to "cross their eyes" when a fish bites. Setting the hook hard with circle hooks usually results in pulling the hook out of the stripers mouth.

A jaw-hooked striped bass has a much greater chance of survival after being released than a striper that has been hooked in the throat or gut.

Read this report from NOAA Public Affairs by Crystal Straughn , or the report from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Division of Marine Fisheries April 2004

Those of us who pursue the Striped Bass know the truth about our breed of sportsmen & women.
Scanning the water on the breaking morning light and the sinking sun. We know that she will sometimes reveal her secrets and give up her giants.
Many of which, we will returned. By a lone fisherman. With no one there to see them do it. For someone else to Catch a Memory of a Life time.

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