Today another 29 Mustad boxes (and the corresponding hooks) was added to flyhooks.org. With this addition there now are over 600 different hook types that have a image (and a total of 1537 hook sizes that have a image)
I have also added small thumbnails on the boxes page, making the browsing experience a bit more visual than before.
On flyhooks.org I have collected a lot of hooks: now counting more than 1100 images of different hooksizes. Having these as a reference is of great help to the many that now visit the site every day, but there is always more to help with the identification or history of the hooks.
The boxes where the hooks come in is a history of its own: when did a hook come on the market, was it in a different batch than before, what material did the box come in (paper, plastic, hard-box or soft), what was the original writing on the box and much more. I’ve been collecting these as well as just hooks, so today I’ve uploaded 109 images of hook boxes to flyhooks.org
I look at this as a natural part of the history of the hooks, and include both old and new boxes (today’s boxes will at one point be of historical interest). I have more boxes (mostly more recent) yet to be photographed, but I’m starting with the first 100+ today.
I will try to create separate entries for the hooks for the different batches of hooks where the hook has evolved from one package to the other, to see if there are differences in the hook itself when it comes to where it comes from.
The URL is http://flyhooks.org/boxes and is linked to from the frontpage of flyhooks.org in addition to be a part of the “Other” menu point at the top of the page.
And yes: there will be one more thing… but I’ll save that to another day ;)
“The Spey Tyer” group on facebook have the concept of “New shanks day” where new patterns are presented and given as a challenge for the community to tie up. I enjoy these as they are digging up patterns that I wouldn’t normally go for immediately, and you get to see the different interpretations of the same pattern.
The Black and Teal is from Francis Francis “A book on angling“, and appears in “Farlows Salmon Flies”, where the first body section also is described with yellow or red instead of the orange from Francis.
From the same batch as yesterdays Mustad sale cards: 7 new A4 sale cards from Mustad, now available on http://flyhooks.org/cards/mustad/a4-cards
These are not sewed together with thread, but rather laminated on the sheet of paper. Some of them do have a bit of rust because the points and barbs have cut the laminated plastic and humidity have entered to the hooks.
I recently got my hands on a larger batch of Mustad hooks, including some medium sale-cards that I now have added to flyhooks.org: http://flyhooks.org/cards/mustad/medium-cards
More to come very soon: I have some A4 cards coming up from the same batch of hooks!
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