Folks,
What do you use to dress/coat your furled leaders;
for Monofilament furled leaders for dry fly fishing?
for Nylon furled leaders for dry fly fishing?
for uni-thread furled leaders for dry fly fishing?
for nymphing and wet fly fishing with the above materials?
Also, when do you coat these? Right after there made? Right before you fish them?
Lots of questions I know, but I don’t see much information on this aspect of using furled leaders…
my thanks for you reply…
I LOVE Loon Payette Paste for ALL furled leader types. It is a great floatant and it DOESN’T melt and leak all over the place when it gets hot unlike the old standby Mucilin. I even popped it in an oven to see if it would melt and it didn’t!
I dress my leaders on the steam just before fishing.
Korn -
I use leaders furled from Danville 210 Flymaster almost exclusively.
I don’t use any floatant on them. They sink, but they don’t sink the fly. It is not uncommon for me to be fishing a size 18 dry with a size 16 nymph trailing - the leader will be underwater, but the dry will float and carry the nymph even in a decent current.
Glad you asked the question, though - and hope that you get a lot of replies, because I am curious about what products I may want to try, at least as an experiment.
John
Dr Korn
I have bee building my leaders with Uni 6/0 and Uni 8/0. I fish them with dry flies so I want them to float. I purchased some water repellant spray used to water proof cothing at Wal-Mart for $5. I put several leaders in a pie plate and give them a good soaking. I then hang them up. They dry in a couple of hours. Once dried they float like a cork. I never needed to reply during all of last season.
RIRed… what’s the brand name of the spray that you use??? thx.
I use the Mucilin in the red can. Works fine and have seen no reason yet to switch. Just give the leader a wipe-down before starting to fish and it’s good to go.
i use stuff made for treating feathers on arrows, made by bohning. once treated you never have to do them again
I used to spray Camp Dry on the leader and let it dry overnight. However in the past 2 years I have not treated my furled leaders at all. No difference at all and I most often fish a dry and midge dropper combo.
I make my furled leaders using uni 6/0 and one of my leaders is going on 3 years of use without any signs of wear at all and I haven’t treated it in the past 24 months.
I use them on slow water, fast riffled water, and even still water - no issue. I use a flouro tippett (with no step down) up to 5 feet long on the end of the furled leader.
In my opinion, treating a thread leader makes no difference to me, on the waters that I fish, using the style I fish with, etc. etc. Your mileage may vary…
thanks folks for all your replys… good info…
Hey Bam…Thanks! I have used Mucilin for years & my only gripe has been it’s ability to “liquify” in the tin. I’ll have to try the Loon stuff.
Thanks again for the heads up.
Mike
Mike:
It’s my pleasure to pass along good info that someone on FAOL gave to me when I was in the same fix!
Dr Korn,
The waterproof spray is called Silicone Water-Guard. Works great.