Roy & Neville-
Thanks for the tips on steaming flies. It worked. All
the flies are fishable and probably 90% of them look
as good as they did when they came off the vise. On
some of the larger ones, you could actually watch the
hackle straighten itself out, just as Roy said.
This is one of the great things about this list. You
can find out about things before you even know you
need it. It would never have occurred to me to steam
flies if I hadn't seen it on the list.
Take care and good fishing.
-John
Oregon
--- Roy Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi John
> Just hold the fly with your forceps in
> the steam for a few
> seconds and watch as the feathers move back to there
> original shape I do not
> know how they will react after being crushed for
> such a long time interested
> to know if it works
> Roy Lawrence, England
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Martinez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 9:43 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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