Doug, hope your wife is feeling ok! I did tie up some more jigs in the shop last nite when I got home, got about 20 of those two tone grean kiptails tied up with a green head and red thread. the eagle claw 570 BP jig hooks showed up as I was getting ready to go out the door to work this afternoon, I got a few of them out, and looked them over. the overall shape on the ones I looked at was consistent, and the finish looked good too, the ling point and decent size barb were looking good. they were sharp enough to catch fish for sure the way they were, and I can see a way to make them sticky sharp too. so many hooks with the old style points on them have a slight hump on them, on the back of the point where it changes angle at the last .050 of an inch before it gets to the point, I think they do this to keep the point from being too long or fragile not sure, but if you put the hook in a fly vice and use a smooth stone it only takes 2 strokes on the back of that point to take that little hump out and make it alot sharper, Iv'e done thos with the old style points on the bronze VMC's and it works like a charm. the only thing that bothered me was the hooks line tie eye wasn't completely closed on alot of them, and you had to have reading glasses on to see it because it was very slight, so slight that in most cases it wouldn't matter, just barely short of touching. at work now.
