1110 Wide Gape Dry Fly Hook

Finally got comfortable tying small dries using this hook. Oversized straight eye is key. Especially when using 18/0 nanosilk thread for the size 20, I never crowd the eye anymore, which is an issue when tying off a hackled head on down eye dry hooks or other hooks with smaller eyes. Good proportions and gap too.

At first I would often bend this hook while tying because it is very fine wire, but I think that was just bad technique on my part or maybe that was back when I used my older bobbin without tension adjustment, because I haven’t had that issue in a while.

Straight eye forever. Oversized straight eye forever and ever. Thank you Daiichi

My favorite dry fly hook. The proportions of the bend, barb, and shank are perfect. The straight eye obstructs the hook gap to a lesser degree for increased hookups. Daiichi is one of the best hook companies out there, so there is never any question to the quality of the product.