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Gunther, thank you very much for putting up the direct link but it is not the video I was speaking of. Although I believe it was shot on the same trip. I couldn’t figure out how to load the one I wanted.Much thanks, anyway…Karl.
The exact title is: DTAGONtail FOXFIRE Brookie Fest!
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Here ya go Karl. DRAGONtail FOXFIRE Brookie Fest!
Awesome results
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Brian, Thank You very much again! Seeing that little Brookie jump out of the water twice to take the fly on the way down was really something, was it not?…Karl.
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I am getting low on the Gamakatsu C15-BV hooks I tie the Well-Hung Spider on, so I did an online search of Vendors in order to buy replacements. Five vendors appeared and all of them are out of the # 14 Size, so I guess my efforts to promote this fly pattern have bin a mixed blessing. Even Gamakatsu was out of the 14s and I believe they are discontinuing this hook model due to poor sales of this Emerger pattern style hook, so I have been looking into a replacement.
Firehole Stix’s 520 Jig Hook is the search winner in that it has design improvements in shape that I think are superior to the C15-BV except for the fact that all of their jig hooks are made on Heavy Wire. The Well-Hung Foam Spider fishes as a Dry Fly, so it would be best for it to be built on the 400 series light weight Dry Fly Wire but, that does not mean that a heavy wire hook will not work.
Fire Hole Outdoors has a New Owner and is being relocated to the East Coast. I have tried to contact them twice on this matter but, I have not received a reply as of 2/15/2026…Karl.
Hey Karl, the Togata 211 below has worked pretty well for Klinks and wet flies. I have found the wide gape in the 12s can be a little large for small fish and can cause eye injuries so I am now using 14s. Does the profile and wire gauge look like it would work for your WHS pattern? The last time I went to order them they were out so I got some Fulling Mills 5060s with a very similar profile and a light gauge wire. They are a lot more expensive though.
Hi Brian, thank you very much for the response and information. Of course any and all of the hooks you showed can and would work.
Have you ever fished with Parachute Hackle Dry Flies? They catch fish very well for the most part but present problems of visibility in getting the tippet to go threw the hook eye and without damaging the hackle in the process of tying the fly on your tippet. Trimming the tippet with out also cutting the hackle is also a challenge and time consuming. A vertical hook eye under the hackle pretty much makes all these problems go away and is so much easier to do…Karl.
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