I have paired my hooks down. I buy dry fly hooks and tie dries, wets, and nymphs on them (that eliminates nymph hooks). I buy emerger hooks and tie emergers, eggs, and scuds on them (that eliminates scud and egg hooks). I buy the curved caddis/hopper hooks and tie stimulators and hoppers on them. Then I buy one type of saltwater hook and one streamer hook (for all streamers and woolly buggers). That leaves me with only five types of hooks. I still buy them in four or five sizes each, but it makes it really easy to just buy boxes of 100 and cover lots patterns. I have to use more weight this way, but that is much better than having my wife see a hook collection like Norm's.
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