Hook anatomy and hook types
Hooks for all purposes

	Two Partridge Bartleet hooks: heavy and fine. This is a very beautiful, classical hook, and it's my favourite for tying salmon flies.
The Tiemco 80x series is a series of short, thick straight eye salt water hooks. Very durable and practical, but not exactly beautiful. They are a bit on the heavy side, but good for certain purposes like The Gift Fly. The Partridge John Holden hook is very similar to these, but made of thinner wire.
	A typical sedge hook which is used by many Danish fly tyers for small crustacean imitations - and for sedge larvae of course. A grub hook with its extreme bend, is used in the salt as the sedge hook for small imitations. It's a very robust hook with good hooking ability thanks to a good angle between line/eye and point. Henning's Snot is originally tied on a grub hook.
The classic limerick bend is still one of the most beautiful for wet flies. These hooks are not widely available any more, but both Partridge and Mustad has some like this one.
	Special hooks for bead heads feature a large hook gap and a smooth round bend. The bead slips over the point and barb with no problems and can rest against the eye of the hook.
Same hook different eyes. This is the same Kamasan dry fly hook. The only difference is the up/down eye. It makes quite a remarkable difference on the overall look of the hook and the look and character of the fly.

Hooks   B175   34011   Holden   840B   800/820   Emerger   TMC700   Selecting   Broken

Did you find the above interesting?

This other story related to "fly tying" might also interest you: Hooks for streamers raske streamers: The hook is the foundation on which a good streamer is built. When streamer anglers meet, quite often it's the subject of heated debate! I've listed a variety of the streamer hooks available on the market today (and some no longer available) in the table in the article. Go to the story Click to see other stories with the keyword "fly tying"

A few random articles for your entertainment Chuck and Duck Chuck-n-duck fishing isn't for everyone. Morality aside, it is an effective angling technique, one worth learning if you find occasionally find yourself in a situation where drifting a nymph along the bottom of a distant lie is the difference between catching and casting practice. November 12th 2006 Nothing Sometimes trout and grayling sip "nothing" from the surface. You have tried the smallest parachute in your fly box - size 18. What they are taking is much smaller. You look again into your fly box, and right - there is no "Nothing" there. September 20th 2006 Better fishing pictures: fishy, fishy! We want to capture our fish in two ways: first on the hook and then in the camera. Once the fish has been hooked many of us already envision the poster on the wall, the image in the online gallery or just a print to show to the fishing buddies. May 4th 2006 Life is good Now, this is something! Norwegian Christian Figenschou and his friends Dariusz and Julem's fabulous pictures of bonefishing and their attitude towards fishing fit perfectly into the GFF bonefishing theme. September 13th 2005