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Originally Posted by diogg
Nice tying, Ben. There's a bit of snatcher about these flies, tied on the curved hooks, for my money. Have you tried any on straight hooks?
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I have tried on a straight hook but they don't look right, I'd rather tie them in the traditional way with tippets at the tail on a straight hook.
Rod Tye never gave a huge amount of rationale behind his decision to use a grub hook, other than he started with that as it was 'short in the shank , hungry in the gape'.
I think the short shank and large gap works well because the trigger point is moved to the front of the fly, so giving better hook up's with this type of pattern.
I'm not going to argue either, as it was the sooty TRB that accounted for my 5lb brown whilst pulling on Corrib this year, and by heck was it an explosive take and perfect hook up!
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