Circle Hooks on spoons ?

[Roland]

Homie, just use a medium retrieve like you would do normally, when you feel the hit, speed it up a bit. what i do when i feel the hit is to speed up a bit and the slow again. dont have to strike, when u can feel it just lift your rod tip. give it a try. get two similar spoons, 1 with a circle and 1 with a J. test it. i prefer circles on my spoons , it really improved my hookups

[kevf]

been a while since this topic saw some action, can anyone add to it?

[Half-Pint]

I still think J hooks will work better than circles. Just the way they work seems counter productive to a lure

[Plugger]

I haven't tried it but it would seem to me that you would lose less spoons to mother earth with circles ? I'm going to put a couple on  and try them when (and if this holiday) the Shad are wild. Been a bit dismal on the fishing front down here so far.

[skiboater]

tried them and failed badly . don't work for me

[Cam Mundy]

How are the guys that are having success with Circles rigging them on lures I battle to see how a circle will work if it isn't snelled are you running them on assists? I can see a circle working on a fish with a big mouth like a kob or Garrick that will suck the whole lure in but not with a nipper like shad?

[dodger]

I tried them on the copper spoons for  's and lots of hits but no hook ups, went back to a J hook and got hits and hook ups
my 2c

[hotrodding]

Hi  ..
 
2 questions to those that have been sucessful at spoons with circles....
 
how many hook ups have been from the outside of the mouth(foul hooked) rather than from inside ?
..and does the size of the circles have to be much larger than the j-hooks you would normally use ?
 
thanks
 

[REEFMAN]

Although it seems that some guys do have success with Circles on spoons, pure logic says that, just by the very nature of how Circles work, that there is no way that they can match the J-hooks for successful hookups.    My 2c.

[Marthin]

I have had zero success on any lure....

Years ago only a treble would do on a lure, first guys to use singles were thought of as insane.... now the majority take trebles off and put singles on.

A circle could work for a "grab and turn" fish that is happy to take a lure from the back end, but as reefman said i can't see it working.  You'll miss a lot of strikes if it takes at the moment you are pulling the lure closer (jerking).

Slow retrieve lures and species specific?

[Lenny]

So I had the urge to ,play around a bit .
Over two insane trip out to sea , so this is more of a Gamefish , I still remain sceptical about slower moving lures and Circles .



I opted for a Normal J /Debarbed .I have been using Single and Debarbing them for years , and had many many fish .
And a Circle on an Assist dangling about 1 inch behind my lure ,for Toothie guys this alone might be a Problem .  Both lures used was the same colour and size .


J hook Shot , for shot , but sometime the hook did not set and you would have a fish on and off , this happened a few times ,  and also dropped a few fish missed them .In the Past I have also seen some accidents with Jhooks and Guys thats new to Gamefishing , J hooks popping out once Fish comes on board ect . This however would not be an issue  from the Shore .


the Circle Not shot for shot , BUT , every hookup I had was a fish landed . It also took more time to unhook the fish.


I would still not change my Singles to Circle on most of my Lures , and would not recommend it to guys fishing for Kob and slower moving Species .


On the Topwaters / poppers  , MY reasoning behind it , it will work , generally a surface strike , the fish will grab the lure and turn away , so the drag created by your lure, could buy you sometime to just tighten up , and the circle should do the rest .


Am I loosing the plot ?