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So if you haven't tried it, please don't make assumptions or matter-of-fact statements about frequent gut hooking.
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Between the two of us I think we had three gut hooked fish all day and one of them was the dogfish on a larger hook. Even if they are gut hooked, a smaller hook is easier to remove and does less damage and if you decided to cut the line and leave it in, the small hook will rust away much quicker than the larger one.
I'm still not sold on the #4 either. I've seen them bend on big trout and bass so bringing up a big fluke from a 45 ft deep channel on a #4 would worry me. I've but I found the 1/0 octo to provide a nice balance, giving me an active and swimming killie and enough backbone if you get a monster on.
