What it is
Hareline Kona Ums Universal Mid Range Streamer Hooks are forged, high-carbon steel streamer hooks with a black-nickel finish. They’re standard wire thickness with a sproat bend and a straight eye, built to pin fish with an ultra-sharp, barbed point. The finish is corrosion resistant, so they’re comfortable for both freshwater streamers and in-the-moment salt use when you’re not babying your gear.
What to tie with it
This is a go-to hook shape for streamer patterns where you want a clean, straight pull and good gape for bulky materials. Tie bucktail and featherwing streamers, Clouser-style streamers with dumbbell eyes, and Woolly Bugger-style streamers with chenille bodies and palmered hackle. It also suits spun hair bugs when you want a straight-eye streamer hook to build on.
Flies and the fish they're for
Clouser Minnows tied on these are staple baitfish flies for smallmouth bass in rivers and lakes, and they also cross over to stripers and redfish anywhere you’re fishing bait patterns. Woolly Buggers on this hook are general-purpose streamers for smallmouth bass in moving water, and they’re equally at home for trout when you need a leech, sculpin, or big nymph profile. Because the hook is a standard-wire, sproat-bend streamer style, it fits a lot of the “everyday” bucktail and featherwing streamer work that bass and trout anglers lean on.