[Matt Henderson]

All,

What's the current barbless hook of choice for tying wet flies?

Cheers

Matt

[Iain Goolager]

Why does that always happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just timed out my session and lost the post.


Mattheus,

Try the Dohuiku HDD 301 & HDN 302 from Phil Holding at the Flytying Boutique.

I don't tie many wets but use the HDD 301 for 99% of me spiders - and it's actually classified as a dry fly hook. The HDN 302 is a wet fly hook and a nice one at that.
Here are some photo's with a Kamasan B170 & 175 - as a comparison as most tyers know these well.
All hooks are size 12



Dohikus' on Left - HDD 301 on top, HDN 302 below.


HDD 301


HDN 302

There seems to be a fair amount of barbless/ micro barbed hooks on the meerkat (Grip, Tiemco, Skalka, Varivas to name but a few - the problem is getting a store with a decent inventory, 'out of stock' seems to be annoyingly common.
I never seem to have any real problem with Phil's stock.
Iain


 

[Barry Robertson]

Cheers for those photo's and info Bert, intresting   

[Matt Henderson]

Cheers Iain. On the crackberry the noo so I'll have a look at the pics on the laptop tomorrow. I almost bought some partridge SLD hooks today but the two places I tried were both out of stock!

[Iain Goolager]

Thanks Bazra 

Partridge SLD's are my favourite dry fly hook but again it's a nightmare finding someone with stock of #12's.
Been waiting a wee while for my last order of them.

I used to like the 103BL's but I've had the odd let down when contacting larger or fiesty fish & I don't think it can be put down to brutality as I never use anything heavier than a 4 wt for my normal trout fishing, I just feel the gauge of wire is too slight, otherwise a great hook.

Here's a 103BL, SLD and HDD 301 for another comparison (103 is #15 others are #12's)




Iain