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I was bored this morning and decided to tie a few hooks. I did trebles a few days ago. Today I'm doing Circle Seas. The cover photo is a homemade 0.5 oz inline spinner with a No. 5 blade. The body is all stainless steel and nickel plated marine brass. The hook is an Eagle Claw Size 6/0 Circle Sea. The dressing is bright yellow bucktail.

Circles are harder to hook up but they do the fish a lot less damage so I try to use them as much as possible. I will often pinch down the barb as well.

This one is the same 0.5 oz inline spinner but they hook is an Eagle Claw Size 3/0 Circle Sea. The dressing is an inner splash of red with bright yellow over top and a collar of dark yellow. I like the splash or red on the inside.

This is an Eagle Claw Size 6/0 Circle Sea with a splash of red surrounded by bright white with a back stripe of bright yellow.

This is an Eagle Claw Size 6/0 Circle Sea with a splash of red surrounded by bright white with a collar of dark yellow.

We normally target Northern Pike so that's what we're going to be using these for.

I hope they like them.

The hooks are Size 2/0 VMC O'Shaughnessy Permasteel 4x Trebles. They are highly corrosion resistant and intended for salt water use. They can take a beating.

They are dressed with yellow bucktail. I sometimes add a splash of red on the inside or outside of the dressing and occasionally add stripes for interest.

We target Northern Pike. I often pinch down the barbs. The dressing generally lasts for one day before it is chewed off and has to be replaced.

These 2/0 hooks generally ride a 1/2 ounce to 3/4 ounce inline spinner. We use hooks as big as 5/0 attached to 1 ounce to 1 1/2 ounce inline spinners. We make all of the lures ourselves.

This is a 1 1/2 oz inline spinner wearing a dressed Eagle Claw 5/0 hook. The lure is over 6" long from the tip of the eye to the tip of the bucktail. This one caught three nice Northerns in the St. Lawrence River before it was used up and had to be redressed.

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