Does anyone on this list know of a cheaper alternative, or similar hook, to the Tiemco (TMC) 2499SP-BL? I saw the "Nitro Caddis Pupae" on www.intheriffle.com and would like to make a batch up, but I don't know that a standard curved scud hook will do the trick or not. the 2499SP-BL is 3x heavy, 2x short, 3x wide, at least according to one site I found them on... though it was in a foreign language so I don't know if I was reading that correctly or not. One seller on amazon said it is 2x heavy, 3x wide, 2x short, so I may go with those specs. Either way, it isn't exactly a standard scud, or a rounded-out klinkhammer hook either. A substitute could have a hook barb, I can crush barbs like the best of them, that isn't a problem, it doesn't have to be barbless if it saves a few bucks. I just can't pull the trigger to spend 12 bucks on 25 hooks for these, but maybe it's just been so long since I've bought hooks that this is the going price now... I've been fortunate to have stocked up on literal thousands of hooks about a decade ago, and haven't had to buy hooks in ages... so the price of a hook may have gone up from what I remember it being back then...
Someone set me straight, if this is the going price of hooks these days, but I'm a cheapskate looking for a cheaper price and thought hooks were less than 48 cents US a piece. I realize it was 10 or 11 years ago, but I bought mine at a little under half that price. Has prices escalated that much in 10 years, or is it because of the special nature of the hook, or something else I'm not thinking of? Thanks for any help you have, and tight wraps, -Pete -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VFB Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
