Lately, I've been using Mustad's new Big Gun Siwash and prefer it over the older style. The Big Gun has a shorter point that is canted slightly to the side and a super sharp point. The only objection I have to this hook, besides the fact that it doesn't have the smaller sizes, is that the hook eye is closed. That means you have to open the eye or use a split ring.

The shorter point isn't as likely to skewer an eye, destroy a gill or kill a smolt like similar-sized standard Siwash hooks.

I caught a bunch of fish on it in Alaska as well as here. It works very well.

Keith