On Mon, 24 May 2004, bassrecord wrote:

Besides being unduly high priced the Mustad and other brands of salt water
stainless steel hooks are far too heavy for freshwater bass fishing as they
require more buoyancy in the popper body to offset their weight.

You need to find a better source of hooks. The advantage of the expensive
Japanese hooks is that they are available in light wire diameters even in
large hook gap sizes. The Mustad 3407 is much heavier than Gamakatsu or
Dai-Ichi hooks.

Mu