I just picked up a really neat book on Hooks - Title is Hooks for the Fly - A Tier's Reverence Guide, Piscator Publishing - Buzzards Bay, MA.  ISBN 0-9657634-0-4  By Bill Schmidt - 1997, NEW - $24.95, USED $13.99, through Amazon.

Cheers!   JIMMY  D

It has Cross Reference tables for the following hooks:

Daiichi, Dai-Riki, Eagle Claw, Easy Set, Fenwick, Gamakatsu, Mustad, Orvis, Patridge, Sprite, Tiemco, Turrall, and VMC.

Specialized Hook Lists for the following:  Salt water, barbless, stainless, Bass Bug hooks, Popper Hooks, treble, shank up, shank down, hooks with color.

Also has a Characteristics Table, showing list of abbreviations for all the hook manufacturers mentioned above - Example:

DAIICHI

Hook  - 2546, Chief Use - Saltwater, Wire - 2xH, Shank - S, Eye - S, Bend - Osh, Finish - SS, Point - Saltwater, Remarks - Bonefish, Tarpon.  Forged.


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