Jay - those are very nice hooks……..the model / nomenclature escapes me now. I picked up a handful of boxes years back, and really liked them for certain patterns especially small bivisibles. I have had a couple of in depth conversations with John Shaner(one recently) - he will know!!


Hi Dana ...

That's what I thought initially but I found a good picture of the E1A Hooper hook and now I'm doubting. The hook in the picture has quite a thicker wire and is not as long shank as the ones I have?

Got this picture from Whitetail fly tieing:
https://i.postimg.cc/YCgP0Kc1/3504-900x-jpg.webp


The ...

Maybe I should start a new topic in case I'm polluting the original topic ;)

I was given these hooks by a friend. The labels show they are Partridge hooks, but unlike any Partridge hooks I know they have much finer wire and longer shank. Looks very much like the Mustad 94831, but being 4x fine it ...