Ron
Thanks, the hooks were Kamasan nymph B?, I can only conclude that they are finer in wire, I usually use kamasan B175 descibed as heavy wire and these are fine.I was trying to dress slimmer flies yet keep the bouyancy thus trade off wire weight for a sparser dressing. My fly tying is artisan rather then artist, unlike my regular angling partner who is the latter. I mentioned your comments regarding fly dressing and the something to hang on to / soft dressing and he remembered a colleague in the local speciman group; to which we both belonged some years ago, making the same comment.
I well remember Mr Walker giving the pinging advice; most of the hooks i gave this treatment bent alarmingly easily, so over a period of time I considered that there may be a trade off i.e a balanced outfit will not bend hooks however this means the fight is prolonged, not good in terms of catch & release.
The water I am fishing at present is not catch & release, it is a water supply reservoir, relatively shallow with all the problems & benefits that go with it. It used to have the most amazing fly hatches. Depth is approx 8-10ft gently shelving from concrete banks it is around 40 acres. It has an awful blue green problem which started about 10 years ago & has increased to a level where at present 50% of the res is like algal soup with only the sides from which the wind is blowing relatively & i mean relatively clear, what are your views on the effect of this problem.
I have fished it on & off for 20 yrs, the fish appear to educate fairly rapidly due to the number of fish lost?.
I use Super Specialists for all of my Coarse Angling and only had one batch of hooks that had suspect temper. Interesting the cross over, fly anglers using carp hooks, carp anglers using fly hooks, whatever next a united front?
regards