Hareline Core C2461 Long Shank Aberdeen

What it is

Hareline Core C2461 Long Shank Aberdeen is a long-shank Aberdeen-style fly hook with a straight eye, wide gap, and an Aberdeen bend. It has a chemically sharpened point, a small barb, and a black finish.

What to tie with it

This is a go-to shape when you want room for a long, tapered body and still keep good bite in the gap, so it’s well suited to large streamers and bucktail streamers. The long shank also helps when you’re building big natural profiles with stacked hair, palmered hackle, or bulky head work without crowding the hook point, and it’s commonly used as a platform in articulated streamer builds.

Flies and the fish they're for

This hook style is aimed at big-profile streamers, the kind you’d fish for trout in rivers and tailwaters when you’re hunting larger fish on baitfish patterns. In warmwater, the same long-shank, wide-gap streamer setup is a natural fit for bass in ponds and rivers where you want a longer silhouette and a solid hookup on a stripped fly. It also lines up with the Aberdeen hook’s conventional baitfish roots, which is why tyers often reach for this shape when they’re building saltwater-leaning baitfish streamers for inshore species.

How it compares

It’s similar in shape and intent to the Daiichi 2461 Long-Shank Aberdeen, sharing the long shank, wide gap, Aberdeen bend, and a black nickel finish.