I've experienced some siwash breakage and was told the tempering process made these hooks somewhat brittle. In particular, the gami rep indicated that bending the hook shank was not a good idea at all and that even bending the bards could weaken the tip. Of course, this was after I had bent a bunch of hooks and rigged them on my kwikfish.

Riverman, I thought you said all those missed strikes were related to late nights and a few cocktails. You didn't mention you were having mechanical failures.