fly on your hands. Besides, they occupy too much space and are bothersome. The eyed fly was revived when dry fly fishing became popular abroad and most fly fishers now use flies tied only on eyed or looped hooks, which they fasten directly to the leader. A large number of them can be carried in a comparatively small space and they can be used with a modern spinner— often desirable in bass fishing.
Some large bass flies and most salmon flies (the smaller sizes of which are excellent for bass) are tied on hooks with a twisted gut loop instead of an eye and they possess the advantages of eyed flies except possibly they are not quite as durable.
