Pallatrax Gripz Wide Gape Hooks

Pallatrax Gripz Wide Gape

There’s Barbed. There’s Barbless. And now there’s GRIPZ.

• Better than barbed or barbless
• Genuine third hook design
• Incredibly popular and efficient hook pattern
• From size 2 through to size 16
• Can be used in Specimen through to Match angling tactics
• Pans species, Carp, Barbel, Tench, Bream etc.
• Unique grooves that give firm hook hold under pressure
• Easily, and safely removed when pressure released
• Incredibly sharp and stay sharp after multiple captures
• Specially designed arrow-shaped hook point
• High-grade Japanese wire
• A comprehensive range of Hair Rigs to compliment.
• Internationally award-winning for their fish and fishery safety

After extensive research, where the limitations of both barbed and barbless were scrutinised, there has been an obvious need for improvement thus resulting in this radical design that crosses the boundaries between what we have had and what we now have.

Made from high grade Japanese wire, the key improvement has been the introduction of a series of minute horizontal grooves on the inside of the specially designed arrow shaped hook point, where historically the barb would have been. These grooves allow the hook to hold securely in the fish’s mouth when pressure is applied, as the flesh presses into the grooves resulting in a firm hook hold with no slippage. As soon as the pressure is removed the hook returns to a barbless format allowing for easy and safe removal. Simple but so very effective.

None of us can deny that this is a serious and genuine development within the hook sector and one that is set to transform the sport and truly add benefits for both anglers, fish and fisheries. The distinct advantages of GRIPZ Hooks are easy to appreciate when you consider hook slippage, fish loss via barbless patterns, hook removal damage and trailing rigs through barbed patterns.

Initially our unbelievably sharp GRIPZ hooks were offered in sizes 6, 8 and 10 in the same Wide Gape style as Pallatrax’s successful and existing hook pattern, “The Hook”.