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

Fishing hooks are a critical component in any fishing setup, yet they’re all too often overlooked. No matter how expensive your rod and reel setups are, without proper hooks fish are going to get away ...

Circle hooks invariably hook fish like this snapper in the corner of the mouth. Photo / Geoff Thomas The advent of circle hooks, also known as long-line hooks or recurved hooks, has changed the ...

If everyone used circle hooks on Lake Mille Lacs, tens of thousands fewer walleyes would be killed this year. But not for the reasons you might think. Contrary to common belief, spread via marketing ...

Neil Sykes didn’t believe it. He had heard that circle hooks are better at preventing billfish deaths than conventional J-hooks. He’d been told that because of the circle hook’s shape, more billfish ...

Since most recreationally caught sharks are released, the conservation benefit of circle hooks makes them an ideal tool for shark fishing. But sharkers will find that the advantages of using circle ...