Making Sense of Hooks

[DUBBN]

Size 22 Griffith Gnat on the New Firehole hooks.

[wsbailey]

That hook looks like a barbless version of Mustad 37160 AKA English bait hook.

[letumgo]

Thanks for sharing the video John. One of the best summaries I’ve listened to on hooks.

[tworod]

I firmly believe that no one will ever make any sense of hooks. The chassis of our work is a Tower of Babel.
The only improvement, a significant one, has been the quality control within a brand. Mustad and Partridge, in particular, would have serious differences in a model depending on the production run.
Partridge was the worse. I can recall frequent correspondence Al Troth had with Alan Bramley about the differences in shank length of a hook model in an order of as many as a thousand hooks.
Best to stay with one model of a brand for a particular fly until the brand disappoints.

[Rscconrad]

That explains a lot. I thought I was going crazy trying to figure out the lengths on some of my older mustad 9672 and 9673 hooks.

Thanks

[Theroe]

Ohhhh BOY………if any of you realized just how many hours I have put into this subject……. At the end of the day I realized this: certain flies must be tied on certain hooks!
Also - Go check out Eide’s website at flyhooks.org…….at the looney bin, he is in the bed next to me.

[bearbutt]

This is an essential reference book for measurements--shank length, gape, wire diameters, and weight--though the weights are all wrong (they are weights per 100 hooks, not one hook, lol)--. Covers Wright & McGill, Partridge, Mustad, Kamasan, Tiemco, and VMC--but because it was published in 1986 doesn;t cover any of the newer hooks--like Dana said, go to flyhooks.org for this data.

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[Johnno]

Yes that is a useful book. Along with the two hackle books……..