*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Hans Weilenmann wrote, concerning Re: [VFB] The battle lines are drawn (was: furled lead:
> > I'm a big fan of furled leaders in >> their proper place, but casting big, wind resistant flies is >> definitely not their forte. > >Paul, I have spoken to Jim Cramer on your behalf. He asks to hear >from you how stiff and which kind of taper you would like and he will >build you a furled leader to correspond to your mono 'ideal'. You up >for this? ;-) Let me chime in on this: I use ONLY furled leaders, not only for dry fly fishing (made from 6/0 UNItread), but also for pike fishing (and I reveal no secret when I say that Dutch pike flies are among the largest and most wind-resistant flies ever devised, except maybe for the stuff that nightmares are made off that Don Ordes sometimes comes up with). My pike furled leader is a 7 foot section with a fairly shallow taper (14-12-10-8-6 strands), made from 15/00 mono. In conventional terms, it tapers from a mass of ca 0.56 mm mono to a mass of ca. 0.37 mm mono, giving it the mass to turn over the fly, and the suppleness to keep the loop tight. Henk -- ===========================Heisenberg was right!========================= | Dr. Henk J.M. Verhaar | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Senior Consultant Ecotoxicologie | home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | OpdenKamp Registratie&Notificatie | phone: +31 70 426 0032 | | Koninginnegracht 23 | fax: +31 70 426 0001 | | 2514 AB Den Haag, the Netherlands | ICQ: 15727113 | ===========================Uncertainty happens!==========================
