It is worth it considering how many expensive muskie lures I have bought that haven't boated a fish yet. I'll gladly pay 30+ dollars if it gets me a muskie in the boat. But actually, I caught those three muskies on the same huddleston and it still works fine. Took a little work with a heatgun after the first fish to get it back together, but it seems that the placement of the single treble hook keeps the body of the bait away from the teeth during the fight. And the fish in the picture never got a tooth in it because it inhaled the bait completely. I removed the top hook from the bait before I ever threw it because I worry about being able to remove it just in case something like that happens. But the treble was easy enough to cut and remove from the fish so that it could swim away to fight another day. Rather replace the hooks then mess around keeping the fish out of water.