Buddy,

It has, indeed, been a long week. Back to head cement. I have a couple I use on flies for swaps or give-away (got to have those shiney heads), Sally Hansen's or Cellire Varnish. Both smell (Cellire is worse) and both give shiney heads.

If I'm using waxed Pearsall's silk I don't use any head cement because the wax usually keeps everything in place.

At the rate I wind up with flies in trees, stuck on logs, jammed under logs or stuck in a fish's jaw after he breaks off my tippet, I just can't see spending the extra time on a fly that I may only get to cast a handful of times.

REE