Inventing a new hook might seem like reinventing the wheel.

New hooks, introduced all the time, look the same as the old, really.

This one doesn’t.

Trapper Hooks are meant to solve two problems: keeping the bait on the hook, and keeping the fish on the hook.

J-hooks can be difficult for keeping the bait hooked correctly.

The bait, from a rubber worm to a real worm or a minnow, can slide up and down a J-hook when reeled through weeds and in other situations.

The right-angles in Trapper Hooks lock the bait in place.

J-hooks can also cause fish to get off, because the hook can rock and make the hole bigger.

Trapper Hooks are built to help prevent that, because when a Trapper hooks a fish, it doesn’t rock like a J.

The photos can help explain.

Or visit the Trapper Tackle website for more info.

Five hook “families” of Trapper Hooks, a total of 19 hooks in different sizes and gauges, are being introduced for drop-shotting, finesse fishing and live bait.

After 40,000 years since the first J-hooks were known to be fished,
it’s time for a change! the company says.