Does the rotating treble work any better than a standard treble hook??  I read about them when they first came out that they set themselves.  I don't believe that about them, but is there any advantage at all having the points bent sideways some??

These hooks are awesome. They are great on top water lures because they manage to hook on everything. Not to mention, they are super sharp as well. Give them a try and you won't be disappointed.

The down falls for me are they manage to stick to everything very easily and hard to remove. As for fishing, love them on my top water, but I keep getting hung up on things with my crankbaits, but that could be because I suck at crankbaiting and lose a ton of baits.

I don't know if it's the Tx3 or not but I have some older Excalibur baits from the late 90's and they all had rotating hooks on them.  At the time I seemed to think that these hooks would drive in and twist as they went in making it harder for a fish to come off. 

I don't know if it's the Tx3 or not but I have some older Excalibur baits from the late 90's and they all had rotating hooks on them. At the time I seemed to think that these hooks would drive in and twist as they went in making it harder for a fish to come off.

Yep, they are the same hooks. The only difference is the Excalibur bait hooks are black and the Tx3 are bronze. If you take an old excalibur fat free shad and compare it to the bomber fat free shad, you'll know which is which from the hook itself. Also some of the colors were different as well that they don't make anymore.

Just my opinion, but personally, I don't care for them and remove them off every bait I've ever had that came with them. Haven't figure out exactly why I'd want to deflect pressure off the point of the hook on a hookset. If they're so good on trebles, wouldn't it make sense that the concept would work as well on single hooks also? Why don't you twist all your worm hooks so they'll self-set also?

-T9

Just my opinion, but personally, I don't care for them and remove them off every bait I've ever had that came with them. Haven't figure out exactly why I'd want to deflect pressure off the point of the hook on a hookset. If they're so good on trebles, wouldn't it make sense that the concept would work as well on single hooks also? Why don't you twist all your worm hooks so they'll self-set also?

-T9

THIS......IS......EXACTLY......what I was starting to think recently when I let myself think specifically about the hooks. Up until this time I never gave any thought to it because I bought all those Excalibur baits way back when I was new to fishing and over the years I got into other baits and there are only one or two Excaliburs I use now at all. I mostly use Rapala's and Bandit baits and none of them have a hook like that.

Then just yesterday I started thinking about the Tx3 hooks and was thinking on a hookset it would not have the same penetrating pressure as a straight hook would. But way back when I bought them I was thinking only about the twisting action of the hook as it went in. The key there is that this would only occur AFTER hook penetration which the chances of would possibly be reduced by the crooked hook points.

Now having said that, I do have to say I've never missed a strike on one of these baits, all hits have resulted in hookups and not coming off. However, I've only had a few fish on them in all these years. Also, that said, I have not fished them much at all because as I said earlier I mostly stick with Rapalas and others. SO........end result........more fishing is necessary to see how they differ from standard hooks.

Darn.......that means I'll have to go fishing. ;D

I don't believe there is any difference in the hook set with this hook. However they do frequently stick the fish with an additional hook point while fighting the fish. Many times I have had several hook points embedded the fish when landed. Sharp hooks................Al

I agree with Brian's thinking. However, I've used them and liked them. They are a fairly light (but well-tempered) wire so, with the oblique angle of the point I'd not use them with very heavy line, or where you have really big fish. Where I fish, for 1 to 4+lb bass I tend to catch, on 10lbXT, they work fine.

As to hooking, they seem to do so just fine. I haven't tried it but some good anglers actually open the points of their trebles a bit when they are receiving lots of bite type strikes. Maybe the offset on a rotating acts similarly?

They do hold really well -too well with barbs. But I mash barbs down on cranks anyway -works fine, and is SO easy to slip hooks out.

If anyone does decide to try some, the ones sold through BPS are not like the one's that come stock. The BPS ones appear to be of poorer quality.

I like them, they still come on fat free shads. The one thing I don't like are that they are bronze and from my own experiences with rusting, I am not to fond of bronze hooks

i wish they would come in red  (here  we go)

Huh, I didn't know these hooks were supposed to help in the hookset. I thought they would mostly come into play during the fight because it'd be harder for them to use the bait as leverage and twist them out