Bill,

Only really care of up,down or straight eye when tying small flies myself say 22 on down,with hooks that small even the eye can take-up hook gap space and you want as much hooking ability as possable on these tiny flies
Why would you think a down eye will reduce the effective gap on the tied fly?

Cheers,
Hans W


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