your hook standards

[kelkay]

What is your standard hook for each of these categories, if you have one? Just one comment is fine. If you have a standard for each, you can list all if you would like to. Thanks.
I am looking forward to reading these. I use a combination of hook makers. I just got an order of Dai-Riki hooks in. I cannot wait to tie on them.


dry fly

wet fly/nymph short

wet fly/nymph long

streamer 3x or 4x

salt water bait fish patterns (I like SC15 or C52S-BLN. I also like Big Game hooks, but not sure if they are for salt or not)

scuds,caddis, shrimp patterns

[kbproctor]

To be painfully honest....

Whatever is on sale! I recently found a few boxes of hooks from who knows who that I am going to tie stuff on. They came in cheap tackle box kits for the grandkids. I'll probably feed them to the trees and bushes behind me anyway.

I do stick to 3399 or 3906 for tying Traditional Wets, though. I'm used to the proportions and my flies come out nicer.

[thorarinna]

I use all kind of hooks, Kamasan, Togen hooks (on ebay, has anybody tried them?).

dry fly: 12-16
wet fly: "usual 1x": 10-14
nymph grubber: 12-16
streamer 4x: 4-10

[Normand]

i try and tie on all kinds of hooks so for me having a standard isnt really a big thing.

i have no alliegence to any brands. they are all ok.

[DG]

Dry: TMC 100BL, 900 BL (18 and smaller), 5212, or 2487BL (depending on bug)

Nymphs: TMC 2457

Streamers: Dai Riki 700

Scuds, caddis, etc: TMC 2457

Most of these are aresult of thirty-plus years of tying and trying out different hooks, and when one of them doesn't live up to my standards, it never gets purchased again. For instance, the Dai Riki 135 scud hook is a favorite of many people, but almost every single 50-pack I EVER bought had three flawed hooks in it. The 700s, though, run about one bad hook per thousand for me. Go figure.

[bugman]

TMC & Daiichi hooks for dries, wets, streamers & nymphs

Mustad C52S BLN for saltwater/baitfish flies

(1) a hook has to be sharp and hold its sharpness...

(2) a hook has to be strong enough it doesnt bend but not so brittle it snaps into while tying or fishing. needs to have a little bit of flex to it...

(3) a hooks eye has to be closed and formed properly acording to the fly its intended for...

[Bamboozle]

With NO deviations after years of buying anything:

Dry Fly Regular - Daiichi 1180 to size 18

Dry Fly Small - Daiichi 1100 from size 20-26 and Tiemco 518 from size 28-32

Dry Fly Curved Shank - Tiemco 2488

Wet Fly/Nymph Short - Daiichi 1550

Wet Fly Classic - Mustad 3399

Wet Fly/Nymph Long - Daiichi 1560 to size 10, Tiemco 5262 from size 10-4

Streamer - Tiemco 300 or Tiemco 5263

Don't do the fly thing in the salt

Scud - Tiemco 2457

[eaustin]

I'm flexible on a lot of hooks, but must have Mustad 94840s for Catskill dry flies. Anything else screws me up.
Eric

[kelkay]

I am taking note of these hooks y'all. I hope more people respond. I love to hear good reports before I get something new, if at all possible. It seems to spare a little grief down the road.

[coughlin]

I'm like Eaustin "must have Mustad 94840s for Catskill dry flies" for all the rest pretty much anything that looks/feels right.
Coughlin