Quote Originally Posted by Allan View Post
Well, not for nothing, but for the last two or more decades there have been complaints and or opinions among a lot of boisterous fly tiers and even fly fishers that Mustad hooks were not sharp. Or at least not as sharp as the then, new improved chemically sharpened (and much higher priced) hooks from abroad. All I've got to say is, those Mustads were plenty sharp enough for the millions, maybe billions, of trout and even bass that were hooked on flies tied on those hooks. If the newer Mustads are sharper, they better come with a warning label.
They should have warning labels... Daiichi comes with a warning. Yes. They are that much better.

This "boisterous" fly tyer will say that the old Mustads are not even in the same ballpark with the new signature hooks. Perhaps the billions of fish caught could have been "trillions" had they been fishing their lures with sharper hooks.

Hooks from abroad? Mustads are about as "abroad" as it gets.