{"id":1828,"date":"2008-11-06T20:05:57","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T03:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/2008\/11\/06\/what-in-hell-am-i-going-to-make-with-that\/"},"modified":"2008-11-06T20:07:24","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T03:07:24","slug":"what-in-hell-am-i-going-to-make-with-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/2008\/11\/06\/what-in-hell-am-i-going-to-make-with-that\/","title":{"rendered":"What in hell am I going to make with that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/togen-steelhead.jpg\" alt=\"togen_steelhead\" width=\"240\" height=\"118\" align=\"left\" \/> <strong>It was an oddball hook<\/strong>, normally I would’ve kept moving without another thought – but a sale is not to be taken lightly…<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.togenenterprises.com\/catalog\/item\/4274834\/4197798.htm\">Togen has an overstock sale<\/a> on an odd shaped “Salmon-Steelhead” hook in black nickel, only a single size available, size 2 – but I took another gander and saw a “creepy-crawly” hook rather than steelhead-salmon steel.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional hooks can be turned over to ride point up only with some heavy add on, bead chain eyes or similar physics-altering device capable of overcoming the weight of the bend and point. Hooks are naturally heavier towards the arse end – and something’s needed to reset that balance point.<\/p>\n<p>“Creepy-Crawly” describes everything that’s big, sinks, and used early season, when the water’s heavy and the fish are looking for the big bug.<\/p>\n<p>This has just the right kind of oddball shape that I can easily flip it over just by positioning the lead on the shank. The size is right for big stonefly nymphs and heavy … <em>you guessed it<\/em> … crayfish patterns.<\/p>\n<p>Early season nymphing is hell on hooks, and it’s common to rescue a fly from a rock snag to find a nice “L” shape to the point – getting that precious point out of harm’s way would be desirable.<\/p>\n<p>At $7.50 per hundred, they’re half price.<\/p>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:f1a92d0e-7b2e-4edb-92bc-62887d0e140b\" class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/togen%20hooks\">togen hooks<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/black%20nickel\">black nickel<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/salmon\">salmon<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/steelhead\">steelhead<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/sale\">sale<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was an oddball hook, normally I would’ve kept moving without another thought – but a sale is not to be taken lightly… Togen has an overstock sale on an odd shaped “Salmon-Steelhead” hook in black nickel, only a single size available, size 2 – but I took another gander and saw a “creepy-crawly” hook […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fly-tying","category-product"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1829,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions\/1829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}