Goulburn Steel 3259 Barbless Pupa Hooks

The Goulburn Steel 3259 Pupa Hook is a great multi-use hooks that is just as at home for pupa and scud patterns as it is for emergers and dries. The wide gape, with upturned point ensures an easy hookset that holds. Whilst the straight eye gives a more natural look to the short shank, unlike many down eye grub hooks, allowing the shank it to sit flat in the surface film.

Sizes #12 – #16
Eye : Straight
Wire : Standard
Length : 1X Short
Finish : Black Nickel
Barbless
Forged Steel
Chemically sharpened 

Quantity : 36 hooks

This hook is a great alternative to the Firehole 315 that many of you loved so much.

Goulburn Steel fly tying hook company is located in the quiet goldfields town of Rushworth, Victoria. Established in 2025 to fulfill a demand from local fly tyers. Their range of black nickel finish hooks are made of high carbon steel and are all chemically sharpened for added bite. You want a hook that goes in fast and holds, and that’s what they are confident in offering at Goulburn Steel.

SIZING
Generally speaking the hook sizes are comparable to “standard” industry sizing. While standard industry sizing is debatable depending on who you talk to, most standard length dry or nymph hooks have comparable shank lengths and gapes.

SHANK LENGTH
The numerical indicator (1X, 2X, 3X, etc.) references a standard hook size 1, 2, or 3 sizes longer or shorter. For example the 8246 Streamer Hook a 2XL hook so, an 8246 #12 has a shank length comparably equivalent to a “standard” #8 hook. 

GAPE
Gape size is offered in Standard or Wide Gape options, depending on hook model. If the Gape is not noted in the the specifications, it is a Standard size in relation to the shank. Wide Gape hooks are noted in the specifications, and present a gape that is one hook size larger than the Standard size in relation to the shank.

If you have any questions relating to the hooks sizing, please get in touch and we'll be more than happy to assist.

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