What the Finesse + Owner Hooks Roundup

Introduction: When someone mentions fishing industry manufacturer Owner America to you, what comes to your mind? Hooks, right? Specifically replacement treble hooks for your swimbaits, cranks, jerkbaits and other hard baits. Owner's line of ST36 and ST41 replacement treble hooks are the default standard amongst consumers who are want the best combination of durability, strength, and sharpness in their treble hooks. But as you might expect from any company specializing in hooks and other terminal tackle, there's more to Owner's offering than just their quality trebles.

Despite this year's theme, we continue to sort through tackle from our 2011 What the Finesse.

The next natural thought? Owner EWG worm hooks both weighted and unweighted and with or without the bait keeper screws. You can rest assured we've been using a lot of these hooks in 2012 as part of our Creature Feature theme. Speaking of themes, we still have a lot of residual product left over from 2011. That's right, we haven't forgotten about finesse and our WTF slogan. In fact, we're here to share with you a quartet of finesse geared terminal tackle from a company better known for their big, beefy, stout hooks for heavy duty fishing conditions. Introducing Owner America's Ultra, Shakey, Wacky Head and Wacky Hook terminal tackle products.

In truth, all past year's themes continue to be in play.

Ultra Finesse Ball Head: Owner combines the easy rigging advantages of a wide gap hook with a finesse ball head in their Ultra Finesse Type Ball Heads. They feature standard wire, wide gap hooks, a shiny, chrome finished head, and a forty five degree line tie.

Introducing Owner's Ultra Head Finesse Type Ball Head.

Ratings:

Pluses and Minuses:

Application: As its name would suggest, this jighead was made to support shaky head fishing and actually has a subtle flat portion right at the top of its head so you can pull the bait upright ever so gently and shake it around.

The head of this jig head has a subtle flat spot to facilitate standup presentations on a tight line.

Bait Keeper/Rigging: Owner's Patent Pending "Centering-Pin-Spring" (CPS) bait keeper is positioned just at the right angle to facilitate weedless rigging of your favorite finesse worm. The CPS holds your bait very firmly in place even after hookups.

But the horizontal line tie of Owner's Shaky Head tends to attract debris.

Effectiveness: I found this shaky jighead very well made and easy to fish. I'm fairly confident my baits are standing up on a tight line and wiggling around as they should but it's hard to say unless you can really see it each and every time. Bottom line is you get bit, and that's what counts. Hook up ratio is very good with these heads.

Hook up ratio is very good with these heads.

Durability: I fish shaky heads in rocky areas so I usually lose them before durability can come into play. Given this is an Owner product, I have every confidence the hook points hold up.