When a fish grabs a bait quickly, you can set the hook before it spits the bait. Since switching to these from circle hooks during the mullet run, I have dramatically increased my hookups.

The angler immediately felt the bite and the circle hook found its mark, creating an instant reaction. Spray flew in all directions as the fish exploded from the water, just feet from the transom.

"Now into December is some of the best fishing for redfish and black drum," said Joe Dennis ... a 20-inch leader and a 3/0 or 4/0 circle hook. "Live shrimp has been my best bait along with live ...

Black Woolly Buggers have been effective ... There’s a possibility he was instinctively setting the hook, and the circle hook is designed so that the fish hooks itself. Trying to set the ...

“It captures bigger fish and marine turtles are rarely hooked. Also, the circle hook is safer for the fisherman to manipulate and it doesn’t tangle as much in the seabed´s rocks”, said Octaviano.

Sablefish (also known as black cod) are near the top of this list, and that’s what Keith DeGraff was fishing for on July 28 when he hooked ... On their second drift, DeGraff dropped an 18/0 circle ...

The great white shark is the largest of predatory fishes in the water, with an iconic legacy that sends fear and respect in coastal areas where they swim. They are also protected by the federal ...

Shark depredation — sharks eating an angler’s catch as they bring it to the boat — has been increasing dramatically. “My largest cod on a recent fishing trip was 15 pounds, and I lost a ...