Circle Hooks for Alaska Silver Salmon, Alaska Fishing Gear Blog

In the 1970s, when we first started halibut fishing off the Deep Creek coast of Cook Inlet, we used herring for bait on J hooks—hooks you had to be on all the time and ready to set the hook like you want to rip the lips right off that fish. But these hooks worked just fine and we never had any problem bringing home all of the halibut we needed. Times change, however, and so in fact did the standard hook setup for halibut fishing. Over the years, circle hooks have become the standard for bait fishing halibut in Cook Inlet. And they work. As long as you can train yourself not to set the hook like you did with those old J hooks. You have to “let them eat,” something that took me several years to get the hang of—it’s not easy to patiently watch while the rod is pulled down through a strike from the deep.But I finally got it.

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