Gamakatsu round bend or ewg trebles?

[Cgolf]

Need opinions on which are better, round or ewg, for trebles on cranks, mostly square bills and lipless? Looking to stock up because I never buy terminal tackle instead of gear which means I have some baits that need new hooks. 
 

Getting some Nano finesse trebles for jerkbaits. 

[A-Jay]

  I prefer & use EWG Treble hooks – I change them.  All my topwater, jerk, rattle, square & crankbaits, even blade baits & spybaits (not mentioned above) all get aftermarket trebles.  And topwater baits that have feathers, also get changed out, I just tie up my own.  (So easy, even an A-Jay can do it)

Mustad KVD 1x Strong 2x Short Triple Grip Treble Hook, Gamakatsu EWG Treble Short Shank Magic Eye and Owner Short Shank Treble Hook ST-35 all adorn my baits.  Especially like that Owner ST-35 (Not for a tail hook though) as it features 150-degree Premium Point Position design, which splits two hook points out 150-degrees versus the typical 120-degrees between all three points. This allows the hook points to be positioned slightly farther out from your bait and help increase your hook up percentage. Opening the gap to 150-degrees also minimizes damage to your bait from the hook points, while keeping the hook points sharper over time as well.

    Note: Owner Stinger ST-35 Short Shank Treble Hooks are designed to be used with baits that have the hook hanger in line with the length of the bait.  These will not hang correctly on lures that feature any hook hanger that is perpendicular to the length of the lure – some of the offerings from Megabass for instance.  Had to include that because as great as these trebles are – they do not work in the situation described.

 

Any & all questionable split rings are traded out for Owner Hyper wires. (including Line ties)

 

A-Jay

[Cgolf]

18 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

  I prefer & use EWG Treble hooks – I change them.  All my topwater, jerk, rattle, square & crankbaits, even blade baits & spybaits (not mentioned above) all get aftermarket trebles.  And topwater baits that have feathers, also get changed out, I just tie up my own.  (So easy, even an A-Jay can do it)

Mustad KVD 1x Strong 2x Short Triple Grip Treble Hook, Gamakatsu EWG Treble Short Shank Magic Eye and Owner Short Shank Treble Hook ST-35 all adorn my baits.  Especially like that Owner ST-35 (Not for a tail hook though) as it features 150-degree Premium Point Position design, which splits two hook points out 150-degrees versus the typical 120-degrees between all three points. This allows the hook points to be positioned slightly farther out from your bait and help increase your hook up percentage. Opening the gap to 150-degrees also minimizes damage to your bait from the hook points, while keeping the hook points sharper over time as well.

    Note: Owner Stinger ST-35 Short Shank Treble Hooks are designed to be used with baits that have the hook hanger in line with the length of the bait.  These will not hang correctly on lures that feature any hook hanger that is perpendicular to the length of the lure – some of the offerings from Megabass for instance.  Had to include that because as great as these trebles are – they do not work in the situation described.

 

Any & all questionable split rings are traded out for Owner Hyper wires. (including Line ties)

 

A-Jay

Thank you for the awesome answer!

 

One question on the jerkbait hooks, do I really need the nano finesse or just stick with the hooks you listed. Hoping my next TW order will get me some jerks in between a shadow rap and Megabass price wise. 

[A-Jay]

8 minutes ago, cgolf said:

Thank you for the awesome answer!

 

One question on the jerkbait hooks, do I really need the nano finesse or just stick with the hooks you listed. Hoping my next TW order will get me some jerks in between a shadow rap and Megabass price wise. 

You're welcome.

I have not used or have experience with that nano finesse hook.

With in the selection I've listed above, there's nothing finesse about any of them.

I use stout gear while fishing for plus size brown bass - my terminal tackle choices reflect that.

I can not say for sure what you 'need' - only you can know that.

These are what I use with some level of success. 

 

A-Jay

 

[Cgolf]

7 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

You're welcome.

I have not used or have experience with that nano finesse hook.

With in the selection I've listed above, there's nothing finesse about any of them.

I use stout gear while fishing for plus size brown bass - my terminal tackle choices reflect that.

I can not say for sure what you 'need' - only you can know that.

These are what I use with some level of success. 

 

A-Jay

 

I will go with the stout hooks, the lake I will jerkbait fish the most has a healthy population of plus size brown bass that I really want to tap into next year. The bummer is they are post spawn when we get to the vacation lake for a week so I need to figure out where they go. I mainly fish reed beds for largemouth on this lake but get a few nice smallies each year. Jerkbaits work really well around reeds.

[FishTank]

I have not changed out many but I like the Owner Stinger for crankbaits and Gamakatsu EWG for jerkbaits.