Sounds very cool - and much more in my price range. I'll try a 25 pack out to test out the hooks, and if I like them (which I suspect I will) I can always get a 100-pack at a later date. Truth be told, I'm a sucker for the packaging, and I like the idea of the hook holder that the 25-pack comes in, so that is part of why I'm starting out with a 25 pack haha. Many thanks for the suggestion, much appreciated - I hadn't heard of these stealth hooks prior to now. Thanks again, -Pete
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Joyce M Westphal <[email protected]> wrote: > Must add, in my opinion, these Stealth hooks are a better hook all around. > They increase in hook length and depth as the hook size increases, > geometrically scientifically set up, and are the sharpest hooks I have ever > used, and I've used a lot of hooks.They are also the strongest hooks I have > ever used. Check them out and read about them on the Stealth hook home > page. > I often tie the Nitro caddis with a greenish/brown core braid, a purple > glass bead for the bead and tiny starling feathers for the wing pads when I > am lazy and don't want to cut the sheeting wing pads. BTW, if you have a > set of cutters for small upright dry wings, you can use that wing cutter to > do the medallion sheeting wing pads..works really well and you can knock > out several dozen in very little time. > > On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 8:50 AM, Joyce M Westphal <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I tie these on a Stealth C10 hook, 100 cost $25.99 so cost 25 cents >> apiece, and also on Mustad caddis hooks, cheaper, and find no difference >> in fishability or catching quality. I do crush the barbs. You can find >> them here: >> http://www.stealth.fish/products/100packs/. I think that the black >> hooks really do seem to work better on these Nitro Caddis when there is >> bright sunlight as the black hook eliminates the glare from the sun. This >> is just my opinion. I buy mine from Eddie Robinson's flyfishing shop in >> Orem Ut. The neat thing about these hooks, if you only want to purchase >> 25, is that you can get them in a great plastic box with a lift out hook >> holder that is great to simply take out and sit on the bench. At any rate, >> check out the Stealth flyfishing hook page just for fun. >> >> On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 8:23 AM, Pete Gramp <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Does anyone on this list know of a cheaper alternative, or similar hook, >>> to the Tiemco (TMC) 2499SP-BL? I saw the "Nitro Caddis Pupae" on >>> www.intheriffle.com and would like to make a batch up, but I don't know >>> that a standard curved scud hook will do the trick or not. the 2499SP-BL >>> is 3x heavy, 2x short, 3x wide, at least according to one site I found them >>> on... though it was in a foreign language so I don't know if I was reading >>> that correctly or not. One seller on amazon said it is 2x heavy, 3x wide, >>> 2x short, so I may go with those specs. Either way, it isn't exactly a >>> standard scud, or a rounded-out klinkhammer hook either. A substitute >>> could have a hook barb, I can crush barbs like the best of them, that isn't >>> a problem, it doesn't have to be barbless if it saves a few bucks. I just >>> can't pull the trigger to spend 12 bucks on 25 hooks for these, but maybe >>> it's just been so long since I've bought hooks that this is the going price >>> now... I've been fortunate to have stocked up on literal thousands of hooks >>> about a decade ago, and haven't had to buy hooks in ages... so the price of >>> a hook may have gone up from what I remember it being back then... >>> >>> Someone set me straight, if this is the going price of hooks these days, >>> but I'm a cheapskate looking for a cheaper price and thought hooks were >>> less than 48 cents US a piece. I realize it was 10 or 11 years ago, but I >>> bought mine at a little under half that price. Has prices escalated that >>> much in 10 years, or is it because of the special nature of the hook, or >>> something else I'm not thinking of? >>> >>> Thanks for any help you have, and tight wraps, >>> -Pete >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> 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 Google >>> Groups "VFB Mail" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> > -- > -- > 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 vfb-mail-unsubscribe@ > googlegroups.com > 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 Google Groups > "VFB Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. 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