I am currently reading Gary LaFontaine’s “Fly fishing the mountain lakes” In there he mentions a way to fish very windy conditons. He uses a long pole, and strips out about 30 feet of flat floss line, then lets the wind jsut bounce the fly off the water. My question is, does anyone knoe where I could find some of this floss fishing line?Thanks
Game fish are too valuable to only be caught once.
-Lee Wulff
Drug store.
Use unwaxed floss, you can buy it for a few bucks at any drug store in 50+ yard rolls.
20 or so feet of floss, a touch of tippet and a stiff breeze and you’ll have that fly dancing across the surface bringing fish up.
You can even toy with the fish, lifting the fly off before they take it… eventually they will come up fast to smash the food thats eluded them!
Paul H.
“Whiskey is for drinking; Water is for Fighting over.”
I believe that dental floss is used for this method.
Sounds to me like a technique called dapping and I believe it’s also done with materials other than floss as well.
[This message has been edited by Bill Blake (edited 18 March 2006).]
Yes, it is called dapping. Best to use a spinning line and reel on a very long fly rod. 12 even 15 feet.in length, the section of floss and then your short leader and fly.
Bob Boyle just wrote a book on this and had sent me a spool of “Breeze Floss Blowline” to give it a try and then to comment on it for his book, which I did. The book is not out yet. The spool of floss line is from Bob Church and Co. Ltd.
I only had 9 foot rods but did give it a try on a breezy fall late afternoon on the Ausable. Nothing was rising but I did bring up and catch a 10 inch brown which literally jumped out of the water after the fly. The floss line lets the fly bounce on the water surface like a caddis or crane fly. Although you let the wind do the work you do have a little control by raising and lowering the rod at times to give the fly short drifts to compliment the bouncing on and off the surface…I’d like to give it a better go as soon as I get one of those long rods. These are not spey rods…Bob
There you go again, blurring the line between real fly fishing and just plain ol’ fishin’.
Seems to me one of these in 14 foot might be just the ticket. H^%$, you could even saw off that crazy handle and put a real fly fishing handle on the darn thing.
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Jim
David,
The same article is in our Stillwater/Lakes section here on FAOL. Check out the archive for more from Gary.
LadyFisher, Publisher of
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Do a search here…For Floss Blowline…There was also a thread here a while back…that gave me the info to Buy a Floss Blowline outfit…Had to order it from across the pond…
Donald Nickleson on here could point you in the right direction…I think I mant still have his PDF File he sent me on this…I’ll see if I still have it…I know I do…and weather you have an email listed here…and see what I can do…The floss used is WAY Different than any dental floss…
“I’ve often wondered why it is that so many anglers spend so much money on,and pay so much attention to.the details on the wrong end of the fly line.If they took as much care in selecting or tying their flies as they did in the selection of the reel and rod,They might be able to gain the real extra edge that makes it possible to fool a fish that has,in fact,seen it all before” A.K.Best
Everyone wants to excel in this sport but at the same time we let traditionalists place restrictions on our tactics, methods, and ideas. I always assumed that fly fishing was a sport that allowed imagination, creation, adaptation, investigation, dedication, education, revelation? : Fox Statler, On Spinners (Not the dainty Dry Fly kind) “Spinner’d Minner Fly”
“Wish ya great fishing”
Bill
Ok I emailed it to you!!
And the site I ordered from was [www.fishingmegastore.com[/url:6bcac]
Hope this helps!!!
This link Should??..Take you too the Shakspere Onset Dapping outfit…I Hope.
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Nope…Did not work for me…Just do a search for Dapping…It brought it right up for me…
Oh yeah…and that price in Dollars is around $186.00…that kinda caught me off guard!!! after it arrived… I’m not good with exchange rates!
[This message has been edited by billknepp (edited 18 March 2006).]
What pound test do you think floss is?