This one is from JC who was tying dry flies for the Fish-In. ~Steven H. McGarthwaite
The job was done, the flies were tied and the heads were drying. Now what?
Wait a while, that's the way I do it. I wait until the next day until they are good
and dry, then I 'dunk' them. In what? Fly floatant, of course. I use a product
that is on our web-site called Gorilla-Proof, but you may have your 'pet' favorite.
How I do it is the subject of all of this. I usually tie a whole bunch of flies at a
setting, not always the same pattern, but enough flies to make it worth while.
This is what works for me. I have a pencil-like looking thing that is a magnet,
not a very strong one, (you don't want to magnetize your flies, they will stick
together) and I poke it into the loose flies, take whatever sticks and 'dunk'
them into the open bottle of floatant. Tap the stick a couple of times, or let it
drip, and pluck the flies off onto a paper towel that lines the inside of a cake
pan. The pan has sides so a breeze will not remove the flies. A few minutes
to dry and into the fly box they go. Works for me. ~ JC
Thank you JC.
Please check out the Fly Tying Section, on the
Bulletin Board, on FAOL too.
If you have any questions, tips, or techniques; send them along.
Someone else thought up most of this material before we did,
they just forgot to tell anyone about it. Or else we just
forgot about it, while learning something else. Let us
share with each other, all the things we know!
~ Steven H.
McGarthwaite (Chat Room AKA Parnelli)
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