Watch Toby Lapinski of The Fisherman Magazine as he shows step-by-step instructions for tying the Power Snell. This knot is a great anytime you need to use large circle hooks and lighter line. 2:13 To jump to how-to process.
THANK YOU, definitely the best way to tie a hook. Not hard and serves a purpose this way. Thise who says he talks to much just turn sound down and fast forward but he's trying to help and explain. Will be doing all my hooks this way from now on. Thank you again.
Been using circles for last 5yrs exclusively and don't own any Js apart from big livebait hooks. The " set and forget " method suits my types of fishing. Improved hookup rate since changing from Albright to Snell. Love em !
maybe it depends what fish and what kind of rig setup you got but for me im not having much luck with the intended purpose of this hook design, i usually fish for small pan fish like crappie,suns/blues, perch,small/large mouth bass or catfish using mostly slip floater or sometimes bottom rig and i wait for the bobber to go down but its not like its peeling the line like a big sea fish and sometimes i slowly retreive it and it still ends up being gut hooked or i lose it ,the success rate on this was not good for me although sometimes it does the job and hook the lip even on very small fish ,but i dont know when its time to pull ,i do not want to leave it too long as it ends up gut hooked ,so idk what im doing wrong and yes i do snell knot it with a uni snell knot
@@ARCSTREAMS sounds like we fish for similar sized fish but it is hard for me to know their bite habits from here in Australia. I can't remember ever gut hooking a fish, from half pound bream to 15lb golden snapper. Maybe something is that I cast, wind up the slack and put the rod in the rod holder. Only once the rod loads up do I lift the rod slowly and set the hook. Best of luck getting it sussed and stay safe mate. 😎👍
@@ARCSTREAMS oh, I mainly use my braid to a quality ballbearing swivel with a ball sinker of suitable size, then 2 to 3 ft leader or a single hook patenoster rig. If fishing calm water I use only enough splitshot 6in from the hook to help the cast. 😎👍
Straight shanked hooks a must, no turned out eyes, they are not true circles. Do not strike as you would with a J hook. A slow, firm lift is enough. I rarely hold my rod preferring to put it in the rod holder, wind up the slack and let the fish do the rest. 😎👍
Thanks, I just sat down and tied a few of these! I’ve been tying regular old knots, and I’ve had zero issues with hook ups, but figured I would try this. My guess is I just wait too long before I start winding and it’s hooking them way deeper a lot of times instead of the corner of the mouth.
Just a thought for ya. A knot such as an egg loop or snell knot is best on a bent eye hook and a uni or polimer knot for a straight shank hook especially true on a circle hook. The idea is to keep the hook inline with the leader and not bent like shown here. There is just better success using these methods which result in better hook ups, especially when using circle hooks. The Snell knot is best used with a bent eye hook to keep everything on the line nice and straight.
This is by far the best way to tie a snell knot. I don't consider other methods true snell knots. It can be tied even faster if you use the whip finish hand technique as used to finish a tied fly. I use this knot all the time for wacky worm and Neko rig largemouth bass fishing with a Gamakatsu 2/0 octopus circle hook, 20 lb braid, and a 5" Senko or Yum Dinger. The octopus circle hook results in far fewer snags, fewer thrown hooks, and no gut hooking compared to a J hook. I also have a theory that a circle hook is less detectable when the bass mouths the bait since the hook point doesn't stick out, so the bass holds the bait longer in its mouth and is less likely to reject it and spit it out before hook set. This might be why Texas rigging a plastic bait that buries the hook point is so effective with bass.
Just came across this video. Followed the instructions, tied the knot as he was doing it. Double checked my knot matched his. As soon as pressure was released from tightening ,using pliers as he did, the knot came apart. I re-tied three times making sure to follow instructions to a tee. Same results. The knot came apart as soon as pressure was released. I have had more luck with the Uni knot than any other knot so far. I will keep trying other knots but it's not looking too promising at this time.
You must be tying it wrong and/or missing a step as I have tied the knots hundreds if not thousands of times as I described in the video and it never comes undone when tied correctly.
@@thefishermanmagazine As I stated, I made sure the steps were followed, made sure everything looked just like what was shown, and the knot still came apart. I have revisited this since my original comment and still am getting the same results.
@@chainer1969 Well, Chainer1969 ... it's you or the video guy. Somebody ain't doing it right. Maybe you could video your way and post it for the video guy to watch?
I just tried to connect 4 lb main line to a tippet clip. It didn’t work- the gap is big enough for the line to slip through, so pulling on the tag end just pulls the line out of the eye.
Circle hooks for live bait shark fishing I agree with but it sucks that in situations you could use j hooks in the past easily say threading a whole ray. Now we have to run wires in the things back and attach the hook at the end of the steel wire...
I started using circle hooks n tried the youtube "easy snell knots" Had issues...watched this video ~6 mths ago. Now If i lose a fish i know it wasnt my knot. Thanks for making this video
Pl check the strength by giving it a good jerk find it snap from the knot I normally use. 45 mm mono uni knots are stronger but hook up ratio is not as good snell knots big snapers give a lot of jerk and the hook breaks from the power snell
So if the cushion part of the tag end on this, that's through the eye and above the wraps, gets cut by the rough part of the eye, won't it just unwrap and you'll lose the fish anyway?
For some reason I always thought an octopus hook implied a turned out eye. I guess it is more correct to think of the shape of the shank relative to other circle hooks as being the distinction. As it is I have never had a compelling reason to snell anything other than hooks with turned out eyes.
Every variation of snell knots that you use a loop to make your wraps with is difficult for me. It twists and gets tangled in the main line. I am using 10 pound mono on a 3/0 circle hook. I won't use the simple snell that uses the main line for the wraps because it will loosen when tension isn't applied. I want a better snell, so for now I am using the one that uses a loop at the end of the hook(away from the eye) and you wrap with the tag end 10 times towards the eye, then run the end of the tag line back thru that little loop. Pull both tight.
We wouldn't advise tying direct to the hook with braid. You should have a leader tied in-between the braid and hook, either monofilament or fluorocarbon. The mono/fluoro provides both shock absorption and abrasion resistance.
Been fishing in Hawaii for 40 some years these are all that we use, when the point touches any part of the mouth it will self set the hook the more pressure the deeper the hook sets, oh and the same with handling the hook, if that hook point touches any part of your hand.... your hooked(trust me on this)it's happened plenty to me. DO Not do a hook set, if the fish has the bait in it's mouth and the hook point hasn't touched any part of the mouth, a trout hook set or sweep you will pull the bait and hook out of the fishes mouth. If the fish is running(pulling line) just start reeling, you stand a much better chance of that point hooking because the line will be coming out of the fishes mouth on one side or the other, hense the side of the mouth hook set.
Sidebar: On 16/0 circle hooks fishing for halibut in between 100 feet and 100 fathoms, where there is no light, I made leaders from 3/16 inch diameter three-laid nylon rope and connected it to the hooks with eye splices. They never failed me where 30-40 pound fish are considered “schoolies,” but yes, it’s not broadly useful. BTW, PB was 134 pounds.
We have tired using this knot a number of times. Using same bait, same rig set up and we found that knot will get out fished 10 to 1 by two experienced fishers using a ledger rig as this design of hook works best when it is tied to the eye as the hook. This then allows the hook to roll into the corner of a fish mouth.
i have a poor catch % using circle hooks (for big blue cats)..not all the fish pick the bait up and run hard hooking themselfs..some bite shy or nibble on the bait making short runs..thinking about try a kahle or octopus hook instead..that way on a short nibble/bite i can set the hook
yeah i have the same problem with the circle hook ,i use size 2 mustad demon circle hook and a size 2/0 but for pan fish on a bobber i can not just sit there a long while after i get a bit ,it dont work that way as like you said they dont run with it and i have to slowly retrieve and sometimes it gets spit out and other times it gets deep hooked ,rarely it hooks the outer lip so either im using them wrong or they are meant for larger sea fishing , but kahle hooks are the same thing no? also when you say octopus hooks its confusing because they have that name for circle hooks too, but i usually use small #8 octopus hooks by berkely (more like j hook style not circle) and they work well but obviously i want lip hooking and not deep gut that is why i was hoping by switching to circle id get that but no luck
Why not just keep the line out of the eye of the hook? This won't affect the hookset and keep the main line from contacting the eye closure end. The eye is not needed in a properly snelled hook - a bump in the hook end would suffice.
No matter the not, if your first wrap is away from the gap/closed side it should never get between to cut abrade the leader. I've used the same knot for 35 years on every hook style out there and 4-40# test line. If done properly and away from the gap you will never have a snell knot fail.
Are you tellin me that smaller diameter lines wont find that little gap? Man.. Cant believe its taken me this long to find this info out lol... Been tying baitloop nots for like 20 years and i usually wrap towards the gap on the first line through the eye as I was thinking this would buffer the leader line that goes through the eye of the hook to the swivel. Ive been doing this wrong my entire life, LOL.
On set lines, yes circles are best. Rod &reel fishing, if you stay with your rods gut hooking very seldom happens, unless you let the fish swallow it. Most people don’t understand, fish don’t have hands! If they pick your bait up it’s in there mouth, hook him. Also, when fresh water fishing, don’t need SS hooks in most situations. Use bronze hooks so if you are outta pocket, or just sleeping at the wheel, the fish swallows your hook, let him keep it. Bronze hooks rust out quickly. I have landed many big fish to find a SS hook hanging in them. In salt water yes SS, but not needed in fresh water.
i dont see why ppl offset the point on this hook, would this not defeat the entire design purpose not to get deep hooked in the mouth? also why dont the designers simply weld or solder that gap? youd think by now they would have all the flaws info on this hook from the customer, but as for this knot i dont see how it prevents the line from getting snagged under this gap,if you look closely at 6:40 the first wrap next to the eye is still wedged in this gap or can insert itself deeper in regardless of that cushion line, might be wrong but juts how im seeing it
I don’t like Snelling in-line circles. You get way better hook sets on circles or any hook for that matter if you snell turned eyes. Straight eyes require a regular knot.
@@jerrypeacock5166 maybe so, but as long as the eye doesn't have any rough edges it won't (shouldn't) matter. If it does have rough edges, no knot would be immune since it would chafe regardless of knot type. I've used this knot exclusively for about 5 years. I've caught cobia, grouper, snapper, snook, amberjack, tarpon, etc and not had one fail from chafing on the eye. Even maxing out 50 pounds of drag in short situations with the rod on the gunnel when trying to keep a grouper out of a wreck and around 20 pounds of drag on tarpon for 20-30 min straight, and from 20 pound leaders when snapper are line shy, up to 80 pound for amberjack. But that's just my experience. Your results may vary.
It’s a striper not a marlin! I’ve never even had oversized sturgeon chaff a hook at the bend. You’re supposed to always check your leader and change your hooks.
Very odd that it's called an "inline octopus hook" when the eye isn't bent backwards like an octopus hook is supposed to be. They could have just called it a "circle hook."
Yes, they will likely swallow the bait but unless you yank on the line in the traditional hook-set manner, or start reeling in too soon the hook should slide back out the gullet without grabbing any meat. That is if the circle hook is *non-offset*. Even an offset circle hook will likely grab gut as it slides back out the gullet. If you like, try this "experiment" with a *dulled*, snelled, non-offset circle hook. Hold the entire hook rather loosely in your closed fist and pull it straight out by the leader toward your thumb and pointer. The hook it should slide out without grabbing your palm or fingers. Then do the same but pull the leader back toward your pinky as if the fish was swimming away from you and you'll feel the gape of the hook grab one of your fisted fingers, while at the same time you should also feel the *dulled* hook point trying to bite into your finger. Your finger and thumb, in this case, represents the corner of the fish's mouth if you can imagine that. I've done this experiment and have used circle hooks with bait for years now luckily without any gut hooked fish as of today. Hey, it's a good law--you get the same adrenaline rush without throwing your back out and the fish gets hooked safely and may survive if released. Cheers!
@@joer9150 I understand your theory but if you are live lining the entire theory goes out the window. Fish already swallowed the bait and is swimming away when hood set occurs
@@lttruck2973 We may not be on the same page...probably my fault with my wording. The proper use of circle hooks is NOT to yank-set the hook at all. As the fish takes the bait and starts to swim away all you do is come tight with the line. Coming tight (no yanking) as the fish swims away causes the non-offset circle hook shank to eventually slide out of the side of the mouth, which then gets pulled toward your direction and forcing the cleverly-designed hook point to set itself (on the lip or corner of the mouth more times than not on my limited experience). Circle hook fishing is a different method of fishing and like anything else takes a little practice at first. I don't think it matters live vs dead bait but I'm not 100% sure on that. Thanks for the calm discussion...tight lines.
I really would like to know where Americans come up with all this fancy dramatic naming shit from. The “power” snell indeed, it is simply a snell and is not in reality a ‘knot’ it’s more of a wrap originally used for tying the likes of spade end hooks, and for those that do not know what a spade end hook is, Look it up. I have been tying my hooks in this fashion for over 60yrs which is way, way before circle hooks were developed and find it the simplest way to tie. Using the snell method I can tie hooks at night without the use of a light, and with a little practice it’s simple. And I certainly have never heard it called it a POWER snell, wow what’s so powerful about it?
Forrealforreal...that "double through the eye" section of line is soo prone to burning on the final cinching it's not worth chancing...ill take my chances with the hook eye edge instead løl Actually neither I'll just carefully epoxy that sketchy spot on the trimmed end of the eye if I was desperately afraid of that edge being a problem~or buy appropriate hooks for the job. Wanna see this guy snell an eyeless size 20 microhook 😝
*hear. Also, yes dont support people who are doing you a service. The first three minutes he is telling you about fishing regulations and then reminds you of it throughout the video.
OK a couple of things: first of all, that’s not a circle hook, I don’t care what it says on the packaging, and I don’t care what you call it. That is a regular J hook. Second of all I can’t see anything in this video. I don’t know which way the line went back in the second time and I couldn’t see anything else either. It’s really funny when you say that you use the yellow line so it looks clearer in the video but then tie the knot over a light colored background. I actually found a much clearer presentation of how this knot was supposed to be tied elsewhere on RU-vid. Third of all, nobody needs this knot. The fact is you can get better results from a Palomar knot, simply because the knot sits on top of the eye and not below it. The reason commercial fisherman use it is because they need this knot for light lines so that fish wouldn’t get spooked by heavier gauge lines. If your knot sits on top of the hook eye, there won’t be ever be any chafing against the eye gap. You don’t need to snell the hook at all with regular mono, you just tie a regular knot. But most important of all, this is knot is not as strong and reliable as a Palomar knot, I don’t care what you say. Even I was able to pull this knot loose with pliers. The only time you would ever snell a knot is if you were using a really thin line.
there is good reason why this hook is snelled and not knotted on top of the eye like any other hook and knot, the snell line coming out the eye the way it is in the vid helps give the proper leverage to hook on the lip as it comes out of the mouth ,using a regular knot on the eye lessens this greatly, try it with a hollow tube with both knots and see for yourself how the properly snelled knot increases the chances of the hook setting on the outer edge of the tube while the regular one simply falls out without hooking the edge , simply lower the hook and line into the tube(i use toilet paper tube) and hold the end of the line just outside to the side of the tube and start pulling the tube up and see how it works better with a proper snell (where the main line is coming out from the inner side of the eye facing the point and not the outer)
Those are the dumbest regulations. Actually not the regulation itself, the fact it applies to private fisherman and not commercial is the dumbest shit i have heard of.
Stops in the middle of the knot tie and talks about the type of hook he is using. It's infuriating to watch you. Are you twisting the loop? You have a crazy video, where you talk at length, until you come to the important part. You flew through the actual knot tie. Your video literally made me angry.
