Hooks are honestly one of the most important components of your fly fishing experience. Across social media and YouTube content, there is very little explained or written about hook selection, and when there is, it is usually a truncated blurb that prefaces a particular pattern that steals the show. Hooks simply do not get the airtime they deserve!  You gain confidence in your hooks year after year, and they tend to be overlooked when considering your seasonal successes. You gain insight and mastery in tying flies on hooks that catch you fish over decades. You become so familiar with the hooks in your fly box that when you pull out a pattern, you don't even have to look at the hook; you already know what it's tied to, and I find comfort in knowing I don't second-guess my patterns. That is a priceless familiarity that runs deep with the well-seasoned angler. As a boy growing up in the Hawaiian Islands, I was no different; I had the go-to hooks that I could trust fighting a b...