I fish a lot of foam hopper patterns, Charlie boy hopper is one of them. Sometimes I feel like the foam fills up too much of that hook gap and I miss/lose fish because of it.
Any suggestions on good dry fly hooks with a wider hook gap that would be ideal of these patterns?
I tie a lot of my hoppers on Dai Riki 280’s; don’t have much problem with the gap being too shallow with them. On real small hoppers, I’ll often use a scud hook like a Dai Riki 135.
Regards,
Scott
Here is the hook Craven uses for smaller hook sizes…TMC 100SP-BL #8-10
I like the Daiichi 1260 personally. A tad bit more open than the standard curved shank hooks. I believe its the sae hook as the Orvis Beadhead hook?
Which hook have you been using?
1hook,
It is just for THAT reason I shy away from foam patterns. No remdy except to use a gaf size hook.
Mark
Here’s Charlie Craven’s BC Hopper tied on a #10 Dai Riki 280; plenty of room between body and point
This modified Rogue Hopper is tied on a #12 scud hook; it would be easy enough to go down to a #14 and still have sufficient gap.
Regards,
Scott
Well, I guess if you really wanted to go to town, you could try something like a Tiemco TMC8089 which is made as small as #12. As Marco pointed out, it is a perennial problem with foam patterns.
