Jig Hooks

[Pete]

I have read other blogs where guys have stopped using them for the reason I said.
I have been fly fishing almost as long as you.I have never hooked a fish in the gills with a fly. Can anyone say that they have? Just curious if it happens with flies.

With Trout, rarely but it's happened, the last time I remember was while slack line nymphing a few years ago.
I can't recall it ever happening with trout on a streamer.

With LM Bass, a little more often, they tend to be very aggressive with surface bugs. "Inhale" may not be technically correct (because they don't have lungs), but it describes the result.

 

[moosekid]

NEFF LIVES!!!!!!!

Tomfly, can you please educate a simple country feller on the ways in which THERMAL dynamics impact the behavior of a fly in the water column. Fluid dynamics, sure -- you can predict turbulence, and therefore uncertainty, in a system. Please help me with the thermal dynamics, teach. Im clearly the only moron on this thread who sees absolutely ZERO relationship between thermal dynamics and the orientation of the hook-point. Thanks.

 

[WBDluver]

NEFF LIVES!!!!!!!

Tomfly, can you please educate a simple country feller on the ways in which THERMAL dynamics impact the behavior of a fly in the water column. Fluid dynamics, sure -- you can predict turbulence, and therefore uncertainty, in a system. Please help me with the thermal dynamics, teach. Im clearly the only moron on this thread who sees absolutely ZERO relationship between thermal dynamics and the orientation of the hook-point. Thanks.

Dont be too hard on yourself Moose, you are not the only moron on this thread.

 

[tompg]

went out with a guide on some local rivers this weekend while working in Manchester UK. All his nymphs were tied on jig hooks. Worked just fine.

 

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went out with a guide on some local rivers this weekend while working in Manchester UK.

Now you're just showing off.