That's probably what is easily available. Thanks to our mutual friend, Donald Nicholson, I have been tying my spiders on Daiichi 1640's. They are a straight eye, wide gap, 2X short hook. Just the ticket for great looking spiders.

Alec Jackson also has some new (er) hooks out for wet flies and north country spiders. His spider hooks are also 2X short, straight eye, but are bringht silver so the silk doesn't change color. Seems to me the old timers who tied the originals knew what color their silk turned when wrapped on a hook and wet, and counted on that as part of their fly design.

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