thanks for posting this. i was thinking about trying some out and now i won't. especially at the price they're charging. seems like eagle claw/wright and mcgill is trying to improve their reputation a little. i saw some of those fancy yellow wright and mcgill skeet reese rods at gander mtn. look real nice cosmetically, but they seemed a bit heavy and not very sensitive at all. even at that i might have tried one if the price wasn't $99.

you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. ;D

Man, that's funny. Made me laugh out loud. I can't believe nobody else even commented on it.

For regular hooks, I see no reason to even think about purchasing these hooks. However, I have been unsatisfied with every punching hook out on the market, so I did purchase a pack of the punch hooks.

The hooks are extremely sharp, but TOO sharp.

First fish - 2lbs - The very tip of the hook bent up and hook was ruined.

Tied on another hook. 2lber - Hook ok. Then another 2lber, hook tip bent.

I bent 3 hook tips on 5 fish all under 3lbs. I threw the rest away.

Interesting. I haven't fished these hooks enough to get quite the same result but I did experience the tip bending on the dropshot hooks with some minor snags in brushpiles that didn't even snap my 6 lb test. I'm just curious to know as to if you've tried paycheck bait's punch hook? It's manufactured under gamakatsu and you have to apply the shrinkwrap barb yourself but it seems like it's one of the better punching/flipping hooks on the market

I tried em,,nothing special. I will stick with my Owners.