To the best of my knowledge i have only lost one fish due to hook failure (the fine wire dry fly hook bent straight). I doubt I have thrown away more than a half dozen hooks because of poor manufacture, but I have LOST several hundred fishing! In fact, I bet the average life span of most of my flies is one or two fishing trips, so "quality" really isn't an issue. I figure flies are like bullets, if you worry too much about losing them you are going to miss some nice fish that hang out in snaggy places. Besides that, I NEED to lose a million or so so I can start saving money tying my own flies...
Tom
On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 08:24 PM, Mark Delaney wrote:
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Too many times I found the plstic boxes more useful than the hooks...Mark�
"Dean Endress..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
IAIN,
�Don't get me wrong...Mustad still produced quality stuff in the Mid 70's thru late 80's... it's just that they also sold soo much below standard stuff as well... I remember the last few times prior to the Tiemco arrival that�I would open the plastic boxes up & pump them on the counter at the fly shop to inspect the hooks... It just got to the point where it was like gambling when you'd purchase Mustads... you had a 50/50 chance of getting Junk....
� I purchase the Older Mustads that come in the cardboard boxes still...they always seem to be fine & quality when they came in a Cardboard box... (did the Plastic Boxes make the hooks go junky????)..why is that???
���� DEAN....
iain short <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Inteteresting, but i havnt had any problems with mustad or partridge hooks, mind you, most of my hooks are from the 50s/70s ... iain
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