Does punch yarn float? I was wondering if there was a problem when you use it for dry flies.
yep, Lighter than water and traps air…E Specially if’in ya grease it with floatant
[This message has been edited by billknepp (edited 21 December 2005).]
It’s acrylic…e.i. the “real stuff”.
Punch yarn is supposed to be acrylic which is heavier than water. Only yarns of polypropylene are lighter than water. But, in either case the biggest factors affecting flotation are the trapping of minute air bubbles combined with a hydrophobic treatment of the fibers that would resist the fibers being “wet” to the extent that they would readily let water get “sucked up” between them.
I follow Al Campbell’s suggestion of dipping my punch yarn dry flies into Rain-X (yup, the windshield stuff) and letting them dry before fishing them. They float like corks.
REE