Octaviano Sanchez, who has been a long-line fisherman for nearly thirty years, was the first one in Jurubira who dared participate in the traditional hooks exchange programme and try out the ...

When should you use octopus, circle, barbless, single siwash, and treble hooks? What's the difference between them, and what's the purpose of the different fishing hooks? Anglers have different ...

Between intense recreational-fishing pressure, big-money tournaments and commercial-longline bycatch, the East Coast white marlin fishery was near collapse in 2000. There was talk of adding white ...

You can fish with the best fishing reel, latest rod, and premium line, but none of them matter if you’re not using the right hook for the job. Those jobs, of course, range widely. The ideal hook for ...

With sheepshead season still in ramp-up mode, an obvious question: How has the widespread use of circle hooks changed the dynamics of catching the toothy and tasty shell-cruncher? Turns out, there is ...

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 ...

Summer always makes me think of panfish, or more specifically taking little kids fishing with bait and bobber. Small children need more or less instant results to hold their interest. The little ...

Anglers are required to use circle hooks in some fishing tournaments because they are less likely to cause lethal injuries in billfish, such as marlin. However, new research shows that broadening ...

That was the assumption when fishery managers created a rule in 2020 requiring anglers to use circle hooks when fishing with bait for striped bass. Some preliminary studies from the late 1990s ...

Octaviano Sanchez, who has been a long-line fisherman for nearly thirty years, was the first one in Jurubira who dared participate in the traditional hooks exchange programme and try out the ...