[Geordieboy]

Morning all,
I have a full suite of Owner Stn-36BC treble hooks for tube flies. As I fish a lot of Frodin style patterns, I have to use them for the TTT patterns.
While they appear to be strong, the wire is fine as are the barbs small. I fish in Norway annually, and wondered what trebles people can recommend?

I'd prefer a thicker wire hook to prevent tearing of the fish and also a bigger barb.

Cheers

 

[rotenone]

Morning all,
I have a full suite of Owner Stn-36BC treble hooks for tube flies. As I fish a lot of Frodin style patterns, I have to use them for the TTT patterns.
While they appear to be strong, the wire is fine as are the barbs small. I fish in Norway annually, and wondered what trebles people can recommend?

I'd prefer a thicker wire hook to prevent tearing of the fish and also a bigger barb.

Cheers

Guideline , sawada or pike fishing trebles

 

[neilt]

Kamasan B990

 

[charlieH]

Don't know if the quality is still the same as 40 years ago, but I've seen a lot of big Norwegian fish (including quite a few over 40lbs) landed on Partridge outpoint trebles, which are now labelled as X1s, I think.

 

[Loxie]

B990's for me.

 

[pfeul]

Sawada st3 and st4

 

[The Flying Scotsman]

B990's for me.

Me too

 

[gcp1987]

Owner STN 46 BC 2X

Tricky to get hold of though

 

[salmonless]

B990

 

[Handel]

Guideline. Sawada if you can get them.

 

[nickolas]

Morning all,
I have a full suite of Owner Stn-36BC treble hooks for tube flies. As I fish a lot of Frodin style patterns, I have to use them for the TTT patterns.
While they appear to be strong, the wire is fine as are the barbs small. I fish in Norway annually, and wondered what trebles people can recommend?

I'd prefer a thicker wire hook to prevent tearing of the fish and also a bigger barb.

Cheers

Ken sawada if you can find them now that he has stopped production, or 990’s.

 

[Mattytree]

Guideline are the ones I keep going back too… expensive but strong and sharp and don’t appear to bend or snap like others… I’ve had owners twice straighten on big fish.

 

[Rennie]

In all honesty I'd make a call on the type of tube I'm looking to use and then pick the Treble from there. For general run of the mill stuff I've never looked past Partridge X1's in all sizes, never had a problem with them at all, both the Needle eye and the conventional wider eyed hook. I do like the Guideline hooks for where you need a heavier grade of hook. For my wee little plaggy tubes I love the Partridge X4's by Frodin. Sadly not been available for quite a while now and my stocks are running low, but they've a needle eye, nice proportions and are more than strong enough.
I did try Sawada's for a while, but the ones I had kept breaking with fish on, so they got the heave!.
1/2 the battle now is finding some one with stocks of terrible's and some certain sizes are like rocking horse pooh. Always strike while the irons there, whether it's hot or not!.
Pedro.