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Wednesday, 22 August 2007

Unique barb point design

Owner Cutting Point hook

While poking around at the Tackleworld store in Noosa today, the topic of discussion turned to hook quality and the salesman showed me a new style of hook from Owner. Featuring what they call a 'cutting point' barb, it's selling point is it's ability to hold an edge. When you look closely at the design it's fairly obvious why.

Rather that narrowing to the tip with a tubular barb, the cutting point barb has a flat inner blade that tapers up to the point. Speaking of which, out of the packet it's really damned sharp. According to the sales pitch, the unique shape adds extra strength behind the tip. It looks to me like it'd work rather well. The salesman was good enough to offer me a handfull of sample hooks to try, so I'll give them a go the next time I feel inclined to offer a chunky bait.