Recommendations for wide gap hook?

I fish a lot of foam hopper patterns, Charlie boy hopper is one of them. Sometimes I feel like the foam fills up too much of that hook gap and I miss/lose fish because of it.

Any suggestions on good dry fly hooks with a wider hook gap that would be ideal of these patterns?

I tie a lot of my hoppers on Dai Riki 280's; don't have much problem with the gap being too shallow with them. On real small hoppers, I'll often use a scud hook like a Dai Riki 135.

Regards,
Scott

Here is the hook Craven uses for smaller hook sizes....TMC 100SP-BL #8-10

I like the Daiichi 1260 personally. A tad bit more open than the standard curved shank hooks. I believe its the sae hook as the Orvis Beadhead hook?

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Originally Posted by 1hook

I fish a lot of foam hopper patterns, Charlie boy hopper is one of them. Sometimes I feel like the foam fills up too much of that hook gap and I miss/lose fish because of it.

Any suggestions on good dry fly hooks with a wider hook gap that would be ideal of these patterns?

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Which hook have you been using?

1hook,
It is just for THAT reason I shy away from foam patterns. No remdy except to use a gaf size hook.

Mark

Here's Charlie Craven's BC Hopper tied on a #10 Dai Riki 280; plenty of room between body and point

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j1...n/IMG_4405.jpg


This modified Rogue Hopper is tied on a #12 scud hook; it would be easy enough to go down to a #14 and still have sufficient gap.

http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/...ps55d08e6c.jpg


Regards,
Scott

Well, I guess if you really wanted to go to town, you could try something like a Tiemco TMC8089 which is made as small as #12. As Marco pointed out, it is a perennial problem with foam patterns.

I've been tying my Foam Butt Caddis this year on a #10 Stinger hook. Works like a charm.

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