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Intense trebles

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Mark Harris:
Damn Nathan :( .

Seems to be the season for big treble failures. I guess it just reinforces the point that no hook is safe with a GT.   My Recorder 7/0 on Tuesday:

Mark Harris:
A similar snap to the one Nathan posted recently happened to me with an Intense 6.5/0 and I have heard of several other such occurrences.

Absolutely will not use these hooks again.  It's a great shame as the initial  testing was very positive and they look like a good product. Clearly there is something wrong though.

Nathan Tsao:
Mark, was the one that you or anyone else broke, a barbless verion? The ones that us over in Hawaii have broken were barbed hooks with the barb pinched off. They have all broken in the same exact spot which is at the strike point of the barb; makes me think the barb is being struck too hard. We are very curious to know if the barbless version hooks dont have this problem. 

Mark Harris:
Hi Nathan, all barbed and snapped in the same place as yours. Barbs were pinched down with pliers.  Here is the pic (with some others):



I have a lot of these in all 3 sizes and they are basically now rubbish as I refuse to use them. :(

Mark Tamim:
i like the owner hooks (ST 76) the best, however, I wish they made a size or two larger than the 5/0.  reason being is that some of the stickbaits out there today are HUGE (Siren, Shell Shaping, even Carpenter)... a few of these sticks clearly need larger trebles that 5/0.   i was leaning towards the intense since they make big sizes till i saw everybody's pics of broken hooks!!  i know there's no immune hook, but i don't hear a lot of bad stories at all with the owner hooks. 

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