Well it ticks ME off. I use those hooks. LOTS of them. The reason...great value and good quality and in boxes of 50 or 100. The "house brand" hooks all break either in the vice or on the water. Mustads don't. I don't like paying premium prices for hooks either. I'm only tying for me most of the time.

I just fired off an email to a buddy who uses about 30,000 of those hooks a year...and I'll see what he says.