posted by Davin on Jun 15
I like to use circle hooks for grouper fishing when I am using live bait. It makes it easier if you want to fish with more than one pole. You can leave your pole with the circle hook on it in the rod holder while fishing with another pole with maybe squid or thread fin herring in hand. The advantage to this is if you receive a hit on the circle hook you don’t have to try to take it out of the holder to set the hook. All you have to do is start gradually reeling and the hook will set itself usually in the corner of the fishes mouth. This saves you the trouble of worrying about if the fish is to small you may have an easy release, and retrieve your hook. You have a lot more people starting to use the circle hook for the sole purpose of an safe catch and release. I highly recommend the circle hook and hope you will try it too.