Handmade Hooks

[marmalade]

Does anyone make trout hooks to order? Have found a maker of salmon hooks..

[Ron Clay]

The only company I can think of would be Sprite of Redditch.

[arkle]

The late Alan Bramley, of Partridge used to loads of this type of work but it was never a great commercial success. There would usually have to be a minimum order of around 10,000 hooks per single size/type/finish with a minimum of 3 sizes. Then there would be tooling costs ontop etc. That was in the 80's, probable quantities will have escalated by at least a couple of 00's by now.

There are plenty of guys that make or re-make salmon irons in the U.S, & E.U. but to try & find someone with both the time & technology to make trout hooks on a small numbers basis is going to be very hard indeed. They would be incredibly expensive & probably have a high failure rate.

One of the leading salmon hook makers is on Ronn Lucas Sr to give you some idea, scaling down to trout sizes - well I'll let you use your imagination.

On the upside the shape you want may already be made somewhere i.e. Japan & just not sold on the U.K. market.

[marmalade]

Hmm. Well that's that idea out the window! I might follow up just out of interests sake.. I wouldn't mind knowing how hooks are made in any case.

[sweenytodd]

Just out of interest , why do you want them ????? What exactly are you after ???? Or is it that you just want to know how they are made ???

Found this >>> http://www.handmadefishhooks.com/ Don't know if they are any good

[marmalade]

I was vaguely thinking of designing a hook and getting it made up, just for fun really. It seems about the only part of the fly-fisher's arsenal that can't be custom made.

I saw those hooks at handmadehooks.com but I'm worried that my whip finish tool won't work properly on them :-)

[sweenytodd]

Originally Posted by marmalade

I'm worried that my whip finish tool won't work properly on them :-)

Might also cause a slight casting issue maybe ?? , turnover could well be a problem !!

I am sure you have done lots of google searching , I have also , but like you can't find anything You would think there would atleast be a video clip somewhere out there showing hooks being made ................