While I use everything from Daiichi to Gamakatsu to Mustad's new UltraPoint hooks, the Owner cutting points are great for those situations where your hookset may not be the best-- such as on those days where you only get one bite a day, and that appears while you're pouring coffee or daydreaming about a hot sandwich on the way home.

Here's the reason I say that. I was fishing for kings in the PA area just after the cutting points came out. We found the fish deep that year, and I was mooching just above the bottom in 400 feet of water. I stuck two kings, both on Owner hooks. On one fish, the hook penetrated the jaw hinge-- it didn't go behind the hinge but through it. If you think about the force I could apply: 400 feet of water (with more mono than that out since I was fishing about a 30 degree angle), monofilament main line (with a stretch factor of roughly 20 percent), then I probably set the hook like a four-year old. But that hook stuck in the hinge, and the force of the fight drove it the rest of the way through. To me, that's a sharp hook, and the cutting point philosophy was proven.

I still fish a lot of different hook styles and think wire diameter plays a big part in successfully sticking fish, but then that one king makes me think twice on some occasions.

Keith