I don't have any tanned goat scrota handy, but I do have some koala bear toe jam, and it's telling me this: Think about how a kwikfish wiggles. At the outside of each wiggle, it is flinging those six points of death all the way to one side. Now, if a fish comes from the opposite side a bit, those hooks have been flung away from him, and when he clamps on the plug, the hooks are near his nose, rather than the corner of the jaw.

So I think it's pretty easy to get why we lose a lot of fish on these. Their very nature makes them poorer hooking devices than, say, a diver and bait. Too bad they get so many strikes.