This is the traditional “wet fly” hook. Wet flies are time honored, successful, subsurface patterns. These hooks feature a more gradual curve of the wire in the transition from the straight shank to the bottom of the bend. This shape is associated with an early English hook-maker named Sproat and today is still referred to as a sproat bend. Dedicated fly tiers consider this as the proper bend to give wet flies their aesthetic beauty.
Sproat bend, down-eye, standard wire, standard length.
Uses: Traditional Wet Flies

Daiichi Fly hooks are the finest in the world. Here's why:

• They are made of the finest high carbon steel, which is hardened and tempered to an exacting formula that makes for a long point life and a very strong hook.
• Daiichi hooks use a 12-degree constant taper ground needle point. This eliminates irregularities in shape, assuring no weak spots, & gives amazing speed of penetration.
• Daiichi hooks are also chemically sharpened in a special bath that deburs their points.
• Daiichi hooks come in multiple finishes that are all evenly and smoothly applied.
• Each hook is precision tooled "true" to the exact design of the eye, bend, gape & barb.
• The barbs are an advanced "low profile" design that results in minimal weakness and less broken hooks and lost fish.