Rodger: Mustad is norwegian company but hooks now made in China presumably with Chinese steel. (could be Norwegian steel)
Tiemco is Japanese company and hooks made with (in my opinion) superior Japanese steel It depends what you are fishing for. I am about to leave on a trip for steelhead and I use the best hooks I can buy, because the number of hook-ups are generally few, and I don't want to lose a fish because of an inferior hook. If I was fishing for bluegills (we don't have any here) I could use cheap hooks and wouldn't care if I lost a few fish. Neville (Nev) Gosling Greater Vancouver , B.C. Canada On 2011-08-24, at 1:56 PM, Rodger Oleson wrote: > I've been looking at streamers in several different places in books and on > the web. I'm wondering what the general consensus is as to using down eyes > or straight eyes for the hooks. It seems it is a bit difficult to > find/afford some of the straight-eyed streamer hooks. Well maybe not totally > out of line, but it seems strange to pay a couple dollars more for 25 > TMC/Tiemco 8089's as opposed to a similar(R74-9672) mustad hook with a down > eye. (Seems to be the general pricing trend) Is it a case of paying for > something better or just pricing to take advantage of what the market will > bear? > Anybody here have any thoughts/reasons for choosing down eye or straight eye > hooks for streamers? > I just thought I'd tie a box full of Woolly Buggers while listening to the > Rangers on the radio, and noticed I had very few hooks with straight eyes and > 4X long. > > Rodger O. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com
