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The Kamasan 980 look like the same hook. The specimen style hook is the style recommended by Roger Fogg for North Country flies. The Daiichi 1640 is used a lot, here, for tube flies and are readily available stateside.

Mark

Soft-hackle wrote:The Kamasan 980 look like the same hook. The specimen style hook is the style recommended by Roger Fogg. for North Country flies. The Daiichi 1640 is used a lot, here, for tube flies and are readily available stateside.

Mark

Not thought of looking at specimen hooks, I mean not everything needs to be "fly fishing" right , guess "fly fishing" will effect the the price...

/Martin

Stendalen wrote: Mike, there seems to be a lot of hooks identical to the 1640/1650. Will check them out and see if Jim ships overseas.

Martin

Indeed, that is because many hooks are made in the same factory and merely repackaged. Also, once a hook pattern is established it is not that difficult to set up a machine to produce it. This is one reason for the massive explosion in hook patterns. Once upon a time they were all made by hand.

Jim does ship and he's very quick.

TL
MC

Stendalen wrote:Hi
Having some trouble sourcing these hooks. Not tried soft hackles on straight-eye hooks so much and these looks great.

I've found them in US but not in Europe. Any ideas?

Thanks
Martin

Hi Martin,


Try Mullarkeys in England, search for Drennan hooks: The Drennan super specialist is the same I think as the 1650.

Muddler.nl verkoopt ook daiichi haken met name de 1640


Greeting

Ruard

You are right Ruard. Strange, I have used Mullarkeys for years, but I did not find those hooks when last I looked!

Anyway, might save some time;

http://www.mullarkeys.co.uk/specimen-fi ... 1/drennan/

http://www.mullarkeys.co.uk/fishing/ter ... nan/12627/

http://www.mullarkeys.co.uk/fishing/ter ... nan/12626/

TL
MC

Thank you gentlemen!