Bill,
Why would you think a down eye will reduce the effective gap on the tied fly?Only really care of up,down or straight eye when tying small flies myself say 22 on down,with hooks that small even the eye can take-up hook gap space and you want as much hooking ability as possable on these tiny flies
Cheers,
Hans W
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