Daiichi 1330 Up Eye Dry Fly Hook 25 Pack – Dakota Angler & Outfitter

HOOKS – Seven Mile Fly Shop

HOOKS – Seven Mile Fly Shop

Hooks Fly Tying - Wind River Outdoor

Some fly fishers prefer up-eye hooks for some of their patterns and claim higher success rates for hook ups. Depending on which knot you use to tie on your flies, this may or may not be true. Theories and suggestions abound and though most tiers prefer down eye hooks, they cannot tell you why. Read info on 1310, this hook is the same except it is an up-eye instead of a down eye model.

Daiichi 1330 Dry Fly Hook 18

Daiichi Fly Tying Hooks – Dakota Angler & Outfitter

In 1990 Jim Lepage and the Orvis Co. designed and patented the original Big Eye hook. The original big eye was a straight eyed dry fly hook with an oversize eye (Daiichi 1110) to ease the threading of tippets.

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HOOKS – Seven Mile Fly Shop

Dry Fly Hooks, Fly Fishing Hooks

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