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would ride on to and not snag the #ottom. ut alas" keel hooks
never sold very well
straight-shank hooks remained kingand the manufacturers stoed
making them. =ustad
stoed making the last keel hooks a little more than a year ago"
so gra# them if you see them
in your local fly sho.
Sometimes you can tie a attern using a variety of hooks.
6rofessional fly tier =ike
achkosky gave me a coule of his deadly Hendrickson 3mergers with
instructions to use
them at the onset of Hendrickson season. his attern is tied on a
long-shank curved nymh
hook and looks uite interesting. Bne day in early =ay" when ,
wasn&t having any success
with my own atterns" , tied on one of =ike&s. he success was
immediate' five nice #rowns
in five casts. his changed my thoughts on tying emergers on
traditional straight-shank hooks.
, took it one ste further and tied =ike&s uniue attern on a
swimming-nymh hook and had
even greater fishing success. , don&t know if it was the
attern or the hook" #ut if it was fresh
enough for 5atskill trout" it was fresh enough for me. Since
then =ike sent more of his deadly
Hendrickson emergers as well as some tied on swimming nymh
hooks. , have #een tying a
variety of mayfly emergers and susending atterns on these
hooks.
Swimming-Nymph Hooks for Dry Flies
,f you e!amine the swimming-nymh hooks availa#le on the market"
you&ll discover that they
are made of fine wire instead of the usual heavy wire used to
manufacture straight-shank
nymh hooks.
