Reference point for barbless hooks – Flyfishers at the Crossing

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- January 5, 2018 at 8:09 am #3874
  
  Tim McCoy
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  The hook is the skeleton of the fly. As such a part of the hook is a reference point for proportioning the body of the fly. Normally it is the barb are the point. Barbless hooks have no barb and the point is extended. How do you get a well proportioned fly without these points for reference?
- January 6, 2018 at 10:07 am #3875
  
  bkbying89
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  On the flies that reference the barb I just imagine where the barb would appear to be. I haven’t been tieing that long so I am sure my flies aren’t really in proportion to the extent that I would like them to be.
  
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- January 12, 2018 at 6:26 pm #3998
  
  Kenny Klimes
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  I use the shank of the hook as my “guide”. Many tiers measure materials off the length of the shank which ends at the bend So pretty close to where a barb would be on a barbless hook.
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