Being I'm green at this fly tying need some help please . Want to get some streamer-nymph hooks . I found some #6 #8 #10 #12 2XL Down Eye Light Bronze and some Dry Fly #10 standard wire 1XL Light Bronze . Will these be good to use ? Thanks
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Being I'm green at this fly tying need some help please . Want to get some streamer-nymph hooks . I found some #6 #8 #10 #12 2XL Down Eye Light Bronze and some Dry Fly #10 standard wire 1XL Light Bronze . Will these be good to use ? Thanks
Sounds like the 2XL hooks would be your best bet. Ideally, streamer/nymph hooks are 1XH or 2XH, but standard wire will work.
Those are hooks that you will eventually use but only by knowing what you want to tie can anyone say if they will work what you are doing right now. For fresh water streamers you will eventually want even longer shank hooks in sizes 2 through 10. You can tie most nymph/wet fly patterns on those hooks. Shorter shank hooks would be better in some cases. You will want some smaller hooks also. A size 10 dry fly hook is on the large side for most trout fishermen but easier to learn to tie dries on than smaller hooks. If you keep tying you will end up with dry fly hooks from size 4 to the low twenties. You'll also want some with longer shanks and shorter curved shanks. If you have a good idea what you want to tie right now you could post a list of those patterns and ask for hook suggestions. It's easier to give good answers to more specific questions.
You can tie just about any fly on just about any hook, if you need or want to. Saves worrying if you have the "right" hook, too, and the fish don't usually care. But most of us end up tying sinking flies on heavier wire hooks and dry flies on lighter wire hooks.
What DG said. When I started tying, I didn't have much of a hook inventory. I tied most everything on a TMC 100 standard dry fly hook. Didn't seem to be a problem with me or the fish.
2XL 1XH is a nymph hook. You can tie streamers on it but I prefer a 3XL or 4XL 1XH hook for streamers.
Most "streamers" are tied with a bead head and/or lead bodies and the "jigging" motion of a wooly bugger does depend on the fore/aft weighting of the hook. A bead head wooly bugger tied on a regular dry fly hook would have a relatively large hook bend and point that is 4 hook sizes too large.