Wizard,

You can find good deals on hooks all over the internet. Allen is good. I get hooks from both Togen (www.togenenterprises.com ) and Hagens (www.hagensfish.com ). Both have excellent prices on hooks, $30-$90/1000 depending on style (you can buy less than 1,000s, but that's the base price I work from).

I keep hearing all that 'you get what you pay for' stuff too, but it is only a fish hook. They've been making them for a couple of hundred years now, and it's a pretty simple object. If I was counting on the fish I catch for sustenance, then a high dollar hook would make sense. So would bait. But I fish for fun. If the fish gets away, I'll just try to catch another one.

Good Luck!

Buddy