Updated 5/2/2007
Have you asked yourself whether or not this could make a difference in other types of fishing: soft-hackles, streamers, maybe dry flys? Let's just say it depends on how you are presenting them. Are you fishing them like a nymph? Then yes it does.
Which style of the three hooks (Straight-Eyed, TUE, and TDE) do you think I choose for my nymphs? My preference is Straight-Eyed dry fly hooks. The hook-gape is not lessened by the eye of the hook and the light wire penetrates the flesh and bone of the fish with less force. Which is essential when your tippet is 6X and smaller.
Do I tie my nymph's back on the hook's belly. No I don't, who would buy them that way? But I do give them a half twist on the hook after I tie them on my tippet.
I tie my jigs on different also but that's another article as well.
Rare is the nymph fisherman that will take the time to be this meticulous when tying on his/her nymph. But -- I am a rare nymph fisherman and my reputation is a testament of its worth.
Which style of the three hooks (Straight-Eyed, TUE, and TDE) do you think I choose for my nymphs? My preference is Straight-Eyed dry fly hooks. The hook-gape is not lessened by the eye of the hook and the light wire penetrates the flesh and bone of the fish with less force. Which is essential when your tippet is 6X and smaller.
Do I tie my nymph's back on the hook's belly. No I don't, who would buy them that way? But I do give them a half twist on the hook after I tie them on my tippet.
I tie my jigs on different also but that's another article as well.
Rare is the nymph fisherman that will take the time to be this meticulous when tying on his/her nymph. But -- I am a rare nymph fisherman and my reputation is a testament of its worth.
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