Brittannia – Ronn Lucas Sr http://ronnlucassr.com Hand crafted fishing hooks Sun, 04 Feb 2018 22:35:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.21 104806356 Brittannia http://ronnlucassr.com/product/brittannia/ http://ronnlucassr.com/product/brittannia/#respond Thu, 07 Jan 2016 21:13:36 +0000 http://ronnlucassr.xyz/product/brittannia/ Paul Schmookler shows this hook in the Brittainia fly (antique) on page 67 of his book “Rare and Unusual Fly Tying Materials: A Natural History, Volume 1.”

The fly has a great name so I elected to apply it to the hook also.

My best guess, because of its classic lines, is that the hook pattern may have origins from O’Shaughnesey, circa pre-1820.

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