Small Varivas hook source

typed:
I'm back tying very small midges and BWOs (for use if the waters ever
recede here in the Northeast !) and I'm running short of my favorite
hooks - Varivas 988. These are wider gape than other hooks in same
class. I need sizes 22 thru 28 (and even 30, 32 if I can find them).
Daiichi 1140 are a decent alternative, but I can't locate any smaller
than 22 or 24.

I can't even see #24 hooks, and find it hard to fathom #32.
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TL,
Tim
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Tim J. wrote:
typed:

I'm back tying very small midges and BWOs (for use if the waters ever
recede here in the Northeast !) and I'm running short of my favorite
hooks - Varivas 988. These are wider gape than other hooks in same
class. I need sizes 22 thru 28 (and even 30, 32 if I can find them).
Daiichi 1140 are a decent alternative, but I can't locate any smaller
than 22 or 24.


I can't even see #24 hooks, and find it hard to fathom #32.

Hie thee to a San Juan 'Clave. You'd be amazed. I was.

--
Ken Fortenberry

I can't even see #24 hooks, and find it hard to fathom #32.

Me too. But George Leonard Herter, in his book on fly tying, says the
smallest fly ever tied was a #40, Not a typo, #40.

It was a royal coachman.

vince