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Prepare three flies
leaders: For wet flies fishing, a three flies leader is an
advantage, and you can prepare your 3 flies leaders before going fishing, to have them safely
kept and the flies well protected during transport, use a strip of
foam rubber, a 4-5 cm wide (2 inches), 1cm (0,5 inch) thick , cut to
the desired length is all you need. Start with the point fly, then
wind up the leader, then the intermediate fly, then the first one,
then split the foam on 1
or 2cm (half to ¾ of an inch) to engage the leader end, loops or
swivel. The foam rubber can be found in stores selling rubber and
plastic.
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To make a
sinking tip: To fish under the surface, while using a floating
line, one can add 1 or 2m (3 to 6 feet) of sinking line. To speed up
the process attach the tip to the line by a loop to loop connection.
Cut the desired length of used sinking line , soak the 2
ends on 4-5cm (1,5 to 2 inches) in cellulose thinner (flammable!),
leave 5mn, the plastic layer of the line swell and can be
removed easily and scrape
with your nails fingers
(1), strip to the thread (2), fold
it up , make a loop and make
a binding with wrapping tying thread (3),
repeat on the other end, put
epoxy adhesive to reinforce the wrappings. This technique can be used
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Improve your
grip: To the grip on the left, the way one carry a suitcase, prefer the grip on the right-hand side picture,
where the index advances under the thumb, it is the position taken
naturally when these 2 fingers seize a sheet of paper . First, try with a
piece of paper, then with the rod. This grip is more comfortable and allows a much better control of the
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Remove
the memory from your flyline: When you buy your flyline or
after been wound up on the reel, the line keep in "memory"
the tight loop and after a cast you get a line full of kinks on
the water.
To get rid of it two ways:
1) - Before or while fishing you stretch the line, stretchingt removes
temporarily the loops in the line.or,
2) -Like putting nylon in boiling water give suppleness,
put your line in warm water, put it to a boil ,let it cool down and
remove the line: it is straight, no loop or kink.
I tested several flylines and this process worked on all of them
( Airflo was'nt tested). More after 5 months of winter storage on the
reel, the flyline still show complete lack of "memory" and
lay perfect on the water. If you want , test it first on a few
meter of your line. Being for a short time in boiling water won't
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