From: "Jimmy D. Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [VFB] New Book on Hooks Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:38:27 -0500
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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Jimmy D. Moore - Scout Exec. BSA (Ret.), TOWA, TF&G Contributor, GRTU Past VP. Past Pres. McGregor Rotary. Freelance Outdoor writer, humorist and half-assed Texan.
Author - "MOON HOLLER MISFITS Fishing & Hunting Club", � http://home.earthlink.net/~rayado/rayadoflyfishingflypatternstips/index.html
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"Being able to read trout streams is just as valuable to a fly fisherman as the ability to read a defense is to an NFL Quarterback."
Jimmy D. Moore - � [2004] *******************************************************************
Thankx Jimmy. Don't know why, but your post are still forcing horizontal
scrolling.............jeeze. mark
