slenon wrote:

If you do some searching on the Web,
you can find chemically sharpenned hooks for the same price or even less
than the traditional Mustads. These cheaper hooks are not QUITE as good
as Tiemco etc., but IMO they are better than the traditional Mustads.
IMO, the "higher" lines of Mustads are every bit as good as any of the
Japanese hooks. However, they are just as expensive.
Willi


I'll look around on line and see what I can find, thanks for the steer.

Since time off is regrettably not a problem, and since travel to sal****er
flats, at least, is measured in minutes, cost per hook becomes somewhat more
of a factor than for those who must allocate time, trouble, and travel to
fish the flats.



From what Sierra fisher said about not being able to chemically sharpen
stainless hooks, I don't know if the Japanese hooks would be any better
than the standard Mustads for salt water.

Willi