This week's Fly Of The Week uses a good amount of bucktail. Also try decievers.
This week's Fly Of The Week uses a good amount of bucktail. Also try decievers.
Thwack,
Do the 9's have a limerick bend?
....lee s.
rookie - Sorry don't get out to the yough to fish.
Thwack - thanks a ton for the links!
Ron Mason - thanks - I will try the dace.
Lee S - I'll have to check next time I'm at my tying desk. I have a pack of them right on top waiting for me to tie some little marabou streamers for a trip this summer.
I bought a few packs of these at a fishing show a couple years ago because they're barbless and look about like a streamer hook (longer than normal shank, I thought, but lighter wire than I'd normally want in a streamer...it's OK in size 9 especially for unweighted streamers since I'll be fishing these on a sinking line downstream).
I tried digging up some hook charts online just now to see if I could spot it. The closest TMC barbless I could find is the 900BL. It is 1XF, but appears to be standard length so I'm not sure if it's the same. I'll have to check the packaging.
[This message has been edited by Thwack (edited 10 March 2006).]
I can't find my pack of size 9's but I did find a pack of size 19's (yes, nineteen) and they list the lengths for all the different sizes of this style hook. In a size 9, the hooks are 3X long (which is why I nabbed them for streamers).
They're a TMC 109BL's. Down eye, 1X Fine, wide gape. Sizes 7-9 are 3X Long. Sizes 11-19 are 1X Long.
These are forged, black hooks. They're marked as being for dry flies, but the longer versions can still be used for a streamer though at 1X Fine, it'll be a pretty light streamer.
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