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Barbless small dry fly hooks

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Neil Owens
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Post by Neil Owens »

Fulling Mill make a nice barbless 1x dry fly hook but it only goes down to a #20

Does anyone know if any manufacturers make any smaller?
ACW
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Post by ACW »

I would look at japan, its where I got some exceeding small hooks way back,via a friend who played Violin with the RPO on world tours .
the tinies we got were barbed but such small barbs hardly had any effect.
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Post by ACW »

Varivas IWI-S_2000 Standard Dry

those go down to #22
but one mans 22 is the next mans 18!
t.z.
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Post by t.z. »

I was given 32's from Dr. Hook (Mustad) once .. can't find them any more. :ninja:

I have extended body parachute fly on a 28 in my box though ... will take pics
TrevH
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Post by TrevH »

Have a look at these.

Varivas 2200BL
(Curved shank, fine wire)

Wizard 661BL
Maruto D9626BL
(Similar hooks - Short shank/wide gape. V fine wire)

Short shank, so you can tie smaller flies but still have good hooking power.

If you want stronger hooks, you can go for something like a Kamasan B981 which goes down to size 20, but again has a short shank. These will handle big fish on strong tippets and in comparison with most fly hooks, are small for their stated size.

You can get similar down to size 20 which again have shorter shanks and may in fact be smaller than a size 20 dry fly hook.

Kamasan B911, Animal
Tubertini 861
Drennan Specimen, Super Specialist, Carp Match, Carp Feeder, Method
Guru Super MWG

Cheers
Trev
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t.z.
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Post by t.z. »

Ahrex makes fantastic barbless hooks ...
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Post by TrevH »

Thanks TZ. I like the look of the minis in particular. I shall give them a try.
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Post by TrevH »

t.z., any recommendations as to a good mail order source for the following Ahrex hooks?

FW507 in sizes 20 & 22; and
FW517 in sizes 18 & 20.

I can’t find a UK dealer or a website that I can understand.

Cheers
Trev
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Trev

I was going to contact the UK distributor. I’ll let you know how I get on
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Post by TrevH »

Great. Thanks!
T
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