What size Hawaiian snaps?

[Sea lyin’]

What size of these type of snaps areyou using?

 

[Rain City]

I stopped using those and my fingers thanked me.

 

[Sea lyin’]

Yeah, thanks. I’ve got the hands of a boxer so no worries there.

 

[Oly1]

I stopped using those and my fingers thanked me.

You can’t just stop there with a statement like that. What is the replacement that you are using now?

Oly

 

[Rain City]

You can’t just stop there with a statement like that. What is the replacement that you are using now?

Oly

 

[ab1752]

Both work well but I find the Hawaiian snaps can be a pita if it's cold. Even boxers get cold fingers haha...if I had to guess if say most of those I'm using are 1". They're way overkill for our chinook fishing I figure and like the ones RC is flashing, way quicker to attach and remove too.

 

[Slabbedout]

I find the coast locks better and easier. I used to use the other style and used pliers to squeeze them slightly to open them but that caused them to fatigue and break.

 

[Sea lyin’]

What’s the preferred size of this style? Do you find that stuff In the water catches on the tag ends of the wire they’re made of?

 

[Rain City]

What’s the preferred size of this style?

I think they're 50lb or something like that?

 

[trophywife]

mine-80lb, easier to use on fingers...use em for hali and salmon. great for main line sliding weights when bottom fishing.

 

[donnie d]

mine-80lb, easier to use on fingers...use em for hali and salmon. great for main line sliding weights when bottom fishing.

Agreed. Bigger, easier to squeeze...lol

 

[Rain City]

mine-80lb, easier to use on fingers...use em for hali and salmon. great for main line sliding weights when bottom fishing.

Does Gibbs sell the 80lb or do you order them elsewhere? I'm not actually even sure which I have now. And obviously I don't care about whether they're Gibbs or not, I just remember picking up some Gibbs ones.

 

[hippaisland]

Agreed. Bigger, easier to squeeze...lol

I find it lot easier pushing swivel into them versus pushing the macmahon snaps themselves to open.

 

[Sea lyin’]

I’ve been doing my hootchies the way shown in the pic for quite a while. I use size 4 snap which is about an inch. Mostly out of belief they’re a little less likely to foul up? Maybe I’m wrong but it’s what works for me. Barbed hook shown in the pic but it’s not mine. I just used it to show how I set mine up.

 

[tubber]

Just tie to the snap on hootchies.

 

[searun]

These figure 8 snaps are 10x better - super strong and easy to open. All I use now.

Silver Horde Gold Star Figure 8 Snaps (outdoorproshop.com)

 

[browningmirage]

I somehow threaded my thumb knuckle onto one of the Hawaiian snaps when landing a fish. Bled pretty good.

I still use them, but have found they open at inopportune times. Better for those constant drag scenarios.

 

[sly_karma]

I stopped using those and my fingers thanked me.

Aha so it's not just me! I felt secret shame and embarrassment at my clumsiness when fishing with others who use these supposedly quick-change snaps. Now thanks to the support of the group I can begin to heal and one day become the warrior man that lives within all of us.

 

[trophywife]

Does Gibbs sell the 80lb or do you order them elsewhere? I'm not actually even sure which I have now. And obviously I don't care about whether they're Gibbs or not, I just remember picking up some Gibbs ones.

i dont know the brand, pnt packages them in bulk, i buy a couple hundred every year.
i do end up with a custom groove in my thumbnail from using them.

 

[Captain PartyMarty]

Thumbs up to the figure 8 style. I hate those Hawaiian snaps with a passion. I just can't them to open when my hands are cold and wet....