hooks

[Guest john]

why are dry fly hooks 'up'and wet ones 'down'?

[Guest Alan Roe]

In a word fashion!! and its as simple as that..Having said that down eyed hooks are easier to tie parachute hackled flies on..

[Guest Colin Brett]

Originally posted by john:

why are dry fly hooks 'up'and wet ones 'down'?

Used to be that way 20 years ago and some people still believe it! All the trout fishers I know [and that's quite a lot] use downeyed hooks for all their flies.

 

Hope this helps,

 

Colin

[Guest Umber]

Tradition, if you want to take the middle road use straight eyed hooks.

[Guest john]

thanks,but all to do with tradition,seems more like a selling point for the manufacturers to me,if its only tradition.surely someone once said,"oh,i'll turn the eye up(or down)"why???

[Guest Colin Brett]

Originally posted by john:

thanks,but all to do with tradition,seems more like a selling point for the manufacturers to me,if its only tradition.surely someone once said,"oh,i'll turn the eye up(or down)"why???

Could it be that the eye acts like the vane on a plug? Thus keeping the fly on top when you pull your line. Floatants were probably not so hot when tradition was invented.

 

Colin

 

Colin

[Guest Umber]

Colin could be on the right lines here. I suppose a down eye would help to drag the wet fly beneath the surface and an up eye keep the line away from the dry fly to a certain extent. Never thought much about it before but its something to think about.