Tricky Hook

Tricky Hook keeps the fly on your vise honest. When you sit down to dress one pattern, you get a fullscreen size card—not a tackle catalog, not a multi-fly browser—just the active hook size, thread, hackle turns, and pattern name locked in a single glanceable view. Cold start opens the card for the pattern on the vise: an oversized hook-size numeral (#8–#22), a clear thread size and color line, a live hackle-turn counter, and a pattern name strip. Typed fields only. Everything stays local. Built for bench flow • One-tap hackle +/− stepper with optional target turns and a remaining-to-target cue so you never lose the count mid-wrap • Vise status chip—On vise, Resting, or Dressed—so the bench always shows which pattern is live • Material strip with short typed slots for bead, body, wing, hackle, and rib • Compact tying-sequence checklist with named steps and done toggles, pinned under the size block • Pattern tray to switch, duplicate, or archive cards without leaving the bench Start faster with a seed pack of classics—Adams, Elk Hair Caddis, Woolly Bugger, Pheasant Tail, Royal Wulff, and Parachute Adams—ready to clone and edit. Works fully offline. Room-backed local persistence for every pattern card, step, and material slot. DataStore remembers your last-active card, type scale, and high-contrast bench mode. An optional home Glance widget shows active pattern name and hook size only—no extra permissions. Hookcard is for fly anglers and bench tiers who dress one pattern at a time and need the recipe in thumb reach. Keep the exact hook, thread, and hackle on one card so the wrap never gets away from you.