Originally Posted by
Allan
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.