How many of your change your treble hooks?

[BassThumb]

Rick Clunn Sunday and he said he that he always changes the trebles on his 1.5 or 2.5

Why would he design a bait then change the trebles out of the box? If the design was wrong then why wouldn't he make that change?

I'll bet it's a contractual issue. Perhaps Clunn likes Owner, but Lucky Craft has a contract in place to use Daiichi-sharpened VMC hooks.

[Sam]

I do. 

[Vinny Chase]

I almost always change my trebles to stingers or triple grips.

My only exception is LC's

[lavbasser]

What does everyone use to replace size 5 trebles on some of the LC baits (like Pointer 100s)?

Actually, Owner started marketing the #5 size hook.

Thanks, I saw them tonight when I went to Dicks. Size 5 is difficult to find.

[SirSnookalot]

I'm lazy and many of my trebles are down to 1 or 2 hooks, I leave them that way on purpose.  I like my fish hooked only on 1 lip, not both, same reason I prefer siwash hooks for my spoons.

[Bluebasser86]

I almost always change my out to red VMC short shank hooks. I've never had a problem with fish bending those hooks and they're really sharp and seem to stay that way for me. Gamakatsu and Owners are just too expensive for me, maybe if I was tourny fishing I'd be more concerned about it but not just fun fishing.

the bending of the vmc hooks come from smallies for me. losing big girls because i get my topwater or crank back and the treb is bent out so far it looks like its giving me the middle finger ;D i learned my lesson using junk hooks that way, besides realizing how much better quality hooks stick fish and get landed compared.

i don't tourny fish and fish for fun as well but i also fish to catch fish, not lose fish. to me there is nothing fun about losing a fattie cuz of crapper hooks on my hard baits.

about 7 bucks for around a dozen gammy ewg trebs is bout the price of one rapala crank. you can upgrade 5-6 hardbaits for a pak, not that much of an expense if you ask me.

Maybe it's the regular shank hooks you've tried? I use the VMC short shanks and catch a lot of wipers on them up to the 8-9 pound range and have never had one straighten, even having to clamp the drag down to keep them out of trees and cables. I get the short shanks VMC hooks for 7 bucks for a 25 pack and I change my hooks a lot. Only being able to do 5-6 baits when you change hooks on your go-to baits every few trips gets expensive! 

[Primus]

If the bait has quality hooks and I want that size I leave the stock hooks

If the hook is not razor sharp ( checking how "sticky" the are ) I change them.

If I want to change the bouyancy ( something I normally do with Shad Raps ) I change the stock hooks for the next size up.

If the hooks show the slightes amount of rust I change them

That's sums up my approach as well. I also don't care a lot for chrome color hooks when fishing clear water, bronze seems to be the least noticeable.

[bassin is addicting]

when you replace the trebles hooks...

do you use regular round bend or EWG?   :-/

thanks..

[Big Bait Fishing]

change out all baits to Owner ST-41's , best treble hook out there 

[okiefisher8]

For all of you that change your hooks, how do you know what size the hooks are? I've never changed treble hooks but have a few lures that I need to do so with, I just have no idea what size hooks to get

[J Francho]

Just bring the bait to the store, and match them up by eye.  After a while, you just know what each size is by looking.

[wisconsin heat]

i have a couple, the strike king lures i have come with junk hooks, but im not wasting extra cash on more trebles, so first i sharpen the stock hooks myself use the stock hooks for a while and when they get dull, i swap them out for whatever i feel like spending on for whatever style of hook i need, brand isnt important. I only have about maybe 6 or 7 hardbaits that i use alot, among them are a few lc's  ( no exchange needed) and others which i swap out the back hook with a sureset hook.

i dont care what other people say about vmc, its sharp enough for me.

[EastTexasBassin]

Once I have caught a bunch of fish on a crankbait, it gets 'promoted' to the elite box and gets a set of Mustad KVD elite trebles.  The elite box only has my top producing crankbaits.  I'm not going to bother changing hooks on a bait until it has proven itself.  lol, it has to earn them.