Braided Treble Hooks--Heard of 'Em Yet?

They're the latest and greatest in newfangled fishing gear designed to catch and hold fish, regardless of how big they are and how much fight they can muster. All the would-be buyer has to decide is whether they're worth dropping $10 for a package of four. Given the current economic crisis, it's hard to say how fast these hooks will be flying off store shelves...if at all.

In the meantime, let me fill you in on a few of the pertinent details.

Savage Gear has drawn a line in the sand with its patent-pending Savage Grip Treble (see photo right)--a hook designed to beat fish at their own game. The goal is simple: Make the word "unbuttoned" completely disappear from anglers' lips forever.

Sounds challenging, I'll admit, but the all-new braided treble is no ordinary hook. From today's crankbaits to jerkbaits, walkers to poppers, reaction-style baits with dangling treble hooks can provide fish just enough movement and leverage to often times dislodge those points. This often occurs when a fish jumps or thrashes at boat side. Thanks to a creative problem-solving design, however, Savage Gear has significantly reduced the likelihood of losing fish to thrown treble hooks.

The key to this new hook's amazingly high success rate is found in its innovative eye. With traditional one-piece rigid hook designs, the intense pressure and erratic directional changes a fish imparts on a hook's point naturally extends up the shank to the eye, which links the treble to its lure. In a nutshell, what happens on the hook is directly transferred to the lure.

Not so with the Savage Grip Treble. Traditional hook design finds the eye formed from a continuation of the actual hook material. Savage Gear, though, creates its durable and flexible eye from 120-pound braid linked to the hook with an epoxy coating. The result is a hook that reportedly spins freely on the lure to absorb all the fight a fish can mount.

Available in sizes 4, 2, 1 and 1/0, the Savage Grip Treble is made with a black nickel finish. This high-performance wide-gap hook is a good choice for retrofitting any lure with treble hooks...including those used in the pursuit of fish like muskie and snook.

Savage Gear products are developed by a team of worldwide anglers driven by a passion for capturing the largest predatory species in whatever waters they fish. The synergy of their collective experience and insight yields superior tools that allow every angler to pursue the same objective. Savage Gear--for those who dare to catch bigger fish!

To see a Wired2Fish video of the new hook in action, just click on this link: https://www.wired2fish.com/terminal-tackle/a-first-look-at-braided-treble-hooks-for-hard-baits/.

With thanks to the anonymous reader who brought this item to my attention.