Points Taken: Gamakatsu hooks a go-to at H&M Landing

GAMAKATSU HOOKS are the one hooks used on the Choices six-pack operation out of Pierpoint Touchdown, and the crew has a variety of them available for his or her island and offshore-fishing wants. WON PHOTO BY MIKE STEVENS

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BY MIKE STEVENS

WON Workers Author

POINT LOMA — Whereas conducting official Western Out of doors Information enterprise in San Diego, WON Gross sales Rep and Constitution Coordinator, Landon Thomas, stopped by the deal with store at H&M Touchdown to speak hooks, particularly, Gamakatsu saltwater hooks with the H&M’s Deal with Supervisor, Nate Patolai.

“One factor we’re liking essentially the most concerning the Gamakatsus is the scale,” mentioned Patolai. “Gamakatsu’s are inclined to run small, and the #2 and #4 are hooks we’ve been utilizing the previous couple of seasons persistently for fly-line tuna fishing, fly-line yellowtail within the assist and that type of factor. It’s your go-to hook, particularly when bait is small or the chunk is hard and you need to step down in measurement. That may make a giant distinction.”

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A SPECIALIZED RIG put in play for island seabass and yellowtail fishing by the crew of Choices Sportfishing that makes use of a Gamakatsu G-Stinger rig. WON PHOTO BY MIKE STEVENS

Patolai went on to inform WON regardless of the small measurement, an angler can pull as arduous as they went on 30, 40 and even 50-pound line. In the case of offshore fishing, he recommends reaching for 3/0 and 4/0 Gamakatsu hooks to cowl most bases on the market. In the case of among the particular, he thinks it comes all the way down to angler choice at that time.

“I just like the ringed ones,” mentioned Patolai. “Some guys are ring guys, some guys are non-ring guys, I don’t assume it actually issues on the finish of the day. We’ve additionally been huge followers of J hooks and circle hooks over the previous couple of years, and so they work rather well.”

ONE OF GAMAKATSU’S newer merchandise is the Octopus Circle 4x robust Straight Eye hooks that options Gama’s unique Nano Alpha coating expertise.

Clearly, that is simply referring to the thought course of that goes into deciding on hooks for West Coast fishing, be it inshore or offshore. A fast journey to Gamakatsu.com will flip up 24 totally different saltwater hooks, and that’s not counting leadheads, help hooks, pre-rigged stuff and so forth. A number of the extra fashionable Gamakatsu hooks for West Coast fishing (together with normal reside bait hooks) embrace the Nautilus Circle Hooks (normal and light-weight, with and with out rings), mild wire reside bait and heavy responsibility reside bait hooks earlier than stepping into extra specialised stuff just like the Kraken Outbarb Circle hooks and way more.

Personally, I just like the sharp hook/mild wire combo relating to fishing smaller anchovies as a result of that surgical level and thin-gauge wire (and to some extent, the slick end) does minimal harm to the baitfish whereas performing flawlessly on hooksets and sustaining energy when it’s time to drag.

For more information on all Gamakatsu’s hooks and different merchandise, go to Gamakastu.com and see how “Gama” can deal with all of your particular hook wants.

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