Blue fin hooks single vs treble

[Bill B]

While looking at jigs for blue fin tuna all are single hooks and never a treble.  But when kite fishing with flying fish there is a combo of single and treble trailing hook.  Wondering if a knife jig/ yo-yo iron with a treble at the bottom and assist hooks at the top would work.  We fish for yellowtails with trebles why not tuna.  Bill

[handi2]

I just don't like treble hooks. They are too dangerous!

Keith

[pjstevko]

Bill a lot of the "sniper" style jigs are fished with treble hooks! And a couple of the heavy yo-yo jigs that are fished for bft have treble home on them

[Cor]

I can only comment on Yellowfin tuna.    We catch those thing on surface jigs (or plugs as we call them) and noticed that many do not stick to the hooks or come off later when using large trebles.

We then started experimenting with 12/0 singles and two large singles.

Although I have caught on all the combinations, I eventually decided two singles facing towards each other gave the best results.
Albacore Tuna get caught on irons that you sink and wind fast, but I can not remember what we did about hooks, I think a large single but not sure.

I agree that for Yellowtail a treble works best, though if he is hanging on a single there is no way he comes of the hook.

[Keta]

Treble hooks cause problems.

[sciaenops]

esp for crew...

[alantani]

they are actually used commonly enough on flying fish rigs.