Circle Hook Survey for Anglers

Circle Hook Survey for Anglers
In an effort to better understand what the angling community thinks about circle hooks, you are invited to complete a short online survey where you will have the opportunity to provide input on this topic. The target community is anglers in North America that have used circle hooks at least once. The information you provide us is important! By completing the survey, you help ensure that the results are as complete and useful as possible. Your participation in this survey is voluntary and you may decide to stop at any time. You cannot be personally identified. For further information on survey data collection procedures and safeguards regarding confidentiality, contact Dr. Steven Cooke (Associate Professor, Carleton University, Ottawa) at steven_cooke@carleton.ca. Findings from the survey will be available at www.carleton.ca/fecpl by mid June. In addition, results from the survey will be incorporated into an overview presentation on biological and social aspects of circle hook use in recreational fisheries at the upcoming first world conference on circle hooks.
You can access the survey here: http://app.fluidsurveys.com/s/circlesurvey/
The survey portal will be open until April 10th 2011. Please share this posting with others that you know have experience with circle hooks.

Seems like an attempt to further regulate fishing to apease the "bambi" type crowd..WF...P.S. Forgot to add before, half the fun is setting the hook and you can't do that with these hooks. Had no luck at all on smallmouth,missed way too many, and real tuff for me to hook trout.

I personally after fishing them using proper instruction cannot stand them after losing multiple BIG fish because of hooksets

I tied a sheet ton of carp flies on circle hooks over the winter...results will be posted in 6 weeks

WF is correct.  It has already started for some of the saltwater fisherman. 
I like them but think they have their place and time and are not always the best choice.  I would hate to be regulated into using them all the time.

i love them for cats. not so much for carp. they slide right out of a carp.
since i started using them for cats i haven't had any gut hook ups.

I use them for cats but that is it. Anything else I fish for I will use something else

So my carp flies suck?

i wouldn't say that. carp are gonna take a fly further in than a boilie or dough bait. my hook is rarely inside my bait. a circle hook just doesn't seem to work on a hair rig. it creates a bad angle for a solid hook set, keeping the point away from the lip. atleast it seems that way. i never tried a fly tied on a circle hook.

after watching that vid i don't think it'll matter that you used circle hooks. a carp is gonna inhale that fly and keep looking for more. i never saw anyone do the dubbing that way. i might have to bust out the vice.

ORIGINAL: Mr.Slickfish

Thanks for the reply. I have the same flies, in the same color tied on circle and "not"


The name of the fly I been tyin is a riot if u know me

I replaced the feather hackle with a marabou collar and added some peacock hurl...nice movement.

I'll give em both a shot.....unless I get other advice.


Thanks again


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R8Qz7tPfu4

Catch any carp on the fly yet Slick? I need to try it out.

i like them only because i can keep the cat rod out and let the fish hook itself while im throwing lures for bass. but i wouldnt think about trying them for anything other then cats.