Stripers and Cirlce hooks?

[Knot Dusty]

Anybody use circle hooks while fishing for stripers? If so in what way? (i.e Trolling, chuncking) If you have tried them in the past and don't use them now, Why not? The reason I ask this is because for years I have used circle hooks down south for many types of fish and having just moved to the North-East this will be my first full season fishing for striper.

[Dave]

I use circles and j hooks. I basically only fish eels as far as live bait goes. I like to use circles in places that are very boney and very fishy. In spots that have lots of submerged rocks/boulders, a good amount of bubbleweed or dropoffs and ledges I find that circles hang up and foul far less and give an advantage in these situations.

[fishr1989]

I use circle hooks for chunking and sometimes for eels as well. I have found that a 2/0 or 3/0 circle hook can be good for drifting an unweighted sandworm during the worm hatch as well as at night around docks.

Nose hooking a soft plastic jerkbait and fishing it weightless can be good in early spring and fall when the bass are feeding on top but won't take a popper ro jerkbait fished fast, and the circle hook makes it easier to avoid gut hooking the bass when they take the jerkbait on the fall.

[fishnutcase]

I use Gamakasu octopus circle, size 7/0, almost exclusively when chunking squid and/or mackeral for late spring and early summer stripers on Cape Cod. My overall hook-up rate seems to be greater with circles than with traditional O'Shaughnessy hooks, once I became comfortable with just reeling in, rather than a hard set on the strike. My goal this year is to down size to 5/0 for smaller schoolies inside the Bass River. Anyone have any tips?

[nydryfly]

I use circle hooks exclusively for stripers and blues & weaks . I tie all my flies on circle hooks as I am mostly a catch and release fisherman they do less damage to the fish.