Dave;
I'll probably get beat up over this but, as a begining tyer, you can save a lot by only buying Dry Fly hooks as you can add weight to the hooks for wet flys. My go to hooks are Mustad and I can count on one hand the number of failures!!
Also, it's the time of year for "Fishing Shows" and you can get some good deals on hooks and materials (at the Warren,MI show last March 100 packs of Mustad hooks were buy one get one free!!).
gmac209 just killed any thought of my buying Allen Hooks because I usually need them yesterday!!