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I stem my flies from time to time as required - works great. I use a
simple
camp kettle which I put on the stove as my electric has an automatic
shut off. You don't need a lot of steam but it needs to be concentrated in
a jet
i.e from the kettle spout.
Neville Gosling,
Surrey, B.C.
-------Original Message-------
Date: Friday, May 10,
2002 01:46:02 PM
Subject: [VFB] Steamed
Flies?
While cleaning out my vest I found a bunch of flies
in
one of those small slide out boxes that flyshops get
their flies
in. The box had got good and crushed while
in the vest, don't know how
long it'd been there, two
or maybe three seasons. I'd hate to toss
them, but
they definitely have a "wadded up" look to them,
don't
know if they'd fish too well.
A couple of times on the
list, people have talked
about steaming flies to restore crushed hackle
and so
on. Can this be done with a regular tea kettle or does
it
need to be a more intense source of steam? Any
other way of restoring
flies? Should I just fish them
as cripples? <VBG> Any tips are
certainly appreciated.
-John
Oregon
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