help with small popper hooks

[Phish 0]

fshrmanms, the Mustad hooks you and Stippled mentioned are pretty cheap on-line and I'm pretty sure Jann's Netcraft sells them as well as Barlow's tackle. Yeah, $4 for 50 hooks is cheap but I don't think the Mustad's are much more expensive. Anyway, who cares about getting a cheap hook? The Tupelo was probably free and you're spending a good amount of your precious time making some nice poppers, I'd go ahead and put some expensive hooks on those bodies, the hell with cheap when time is worth more than any hook you'll ever buy.

Kirk , ever hear the old saying: sometimes "better" is the enemy of good enough?? the request is for a small hook I used the eagle claw hooks because of the size the price is an added benefit! needed something a little longer than the 3366 and didn't have any #10, 33903s' on hand.

By the way the pencil poppers worked perfectly and really slayed the bream! I will definitely use that hook again. So sad both of the prototype pencil poppers were broken off. but I will put the pencil sharpener back to work soon.

Gotcha. I know what you mean about shank lenghts for certain bugs. I like the little extra length the 33903 gives. You might want to look at some of the straight eye streamer hooks. I think Mustad sells some 6x long straight eye streamer hooks. I've also used the down eye 7x streamer hooks they sell for some of my Rabid Dogs, which are basically pencil sliders even though they dive and dart around.

 

Kirk

Why bother with very long streamer hooks? They have a piss poor dismal hook up rate and even worse losing a very nice fish on them. If you gonna go long then go the tube route and use short shank wide gap hooks that are really more available and hook up ratio are phenomenal. Poppers last helva lot longer and you can change rear dressings.

[essequamvideri 0]

Reading this thread. I use Mustad #3366 for most of my crease flies. J. Stockard still has them in stock, however they only go down to a size #4. They are only $5.25 per 100 pack. That said, they also have the kink shank #33903 from a 2-8 size. They are only 8.95 per 100 pack. I'm not sure if the #3366 in a size 4 has a shorter shank than the size 8 kink shank #33903.

 

Michael

I'm glad I read all the way to the bottom of this thread--I've been buying Mustad 3366 hooks from FeatherCraft at $4.95 per 50 and thinking that was a good price. Come to find out J. Stockard has them for the same price, but for a 100-pack. That's a no-brainer. Thanks for the tip essequamvideri.

Bryan,

 

Glad I could pass on the info. I have purchased from them before. They are a good company to do business with. Keep in mind to call them, instead of ordering on line, because you can ask about any discount and deals they may have going at the time.

 

Michael

[Kirk Dietrich 0]

fshrmanms, the Mustad hooks you and Stippled mentioned are pretty cheap on-line and I'm pretty sure Jann's Netcraft sells them as well as Barlow's tackle. Yeah, $4 for 50 hooks is cheap but I don't think the Mustad's are much more expensive. Anyway, who cares about getting a cheap hook? The Tupelo was probably free and you're spending a good amount of your precious time making some nice poppers, I'd go ahead and put some expensive hooks on those bodies, the hell with cheap when time is worth more than any hook you'll ever buy.

Kirk , ever hear the old saying: sometimes "better" is the enemy of good enough?? the request is for a small hook I used the eagle claw hooks because of the size the price is an added benefit! needed something a little longer than the 3366 and didn't have any #10, 33903s' on hand.

By the way the pencil poppers worked perfectly and really slayed the bream! I will definitely use that hook again. So sad both of the prototype pencil poppers were broken off. but I will put the pencil sharpener back to work soon.

Gotcha. I know what you mean about shank lenghts for certain bugs. I like the little extra length the 33903 gives. You might want to look at some of the straight eye streamer hooks. I think Mustad sells some 6x long straight eye streamer hooks. I've also used the down eye 7x streamer hooks they sell for some of my Rabid Dogs, which are basically pencil sliders even though they dive and dart around.

 

Kirk

Why bother with very long streamer hooks? They have a piss poor dismal hook up rate and even worse losing a very nice fish on them. If you gonna go long then go the tube route and use short shank wide gap hooks that are really more available and hook up ratio are phenomenal. Poppers last helva lot longer and you can change rear dressings.

Phish, that may be the case with bass bugs but I think the size 8 and smaller as originally indicated, it doesn't make much difference. Plus it makes it easier to retrieve your bug from the little mouth of small fish. I've never had a hook up problem with the 33903 and the streamer hooks are basically a 33903 without a kinked shank.

 

Kirk