On 29 Apr, 2004, at 5:28, Wes Wada wrote:
1. Can anyone identify this fly?
No idea...
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2. Can anyone please start a thread on how to best and most efficiently tie bullethead deerhair flies? (Hey, Terrestrial Season will soon be upon us!) Links to online photos would be a plus. Somebody in this wide web world has to have a page on this somewhere??
SImple, get a packet of Griffin bullet head tools (plastic disk with hole and a rubber membrane (with another hole in it) in the hole). The tool is used to fold the hair back, and keep in in place. Tie down in front of the disk, finish, and slide the tool off.
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3. I cut my favorite line in half this last fishing trip when I stepped on it as it laid across the edge of a sharp rock. Surgically precise fishing accident, we are talking here. By about five feet extra, I have enough of the front part of the line remaining to make a shooting head. Luckily, I also have 100' of .034" Orvis Wonderline running line I've had sitting around unemployed from an eBay purchase.
First, this Wonderline running line has a braided loop connection on the end intended to connect to the shooting head. The OPEN part of the loop on this connector is a whopping 7" long. That is: I can easily stick my hand through the loop. First time I've seen that. Does anyone know why the loop is designed like this?
Yep, so you can change heads with the line on the reel and the reel on the rod. I.e. while fishing...
Second, how bad a hinge-effect does this create in the flyline?
Head to running line? None, since this is the section that will be just outside (or inside) the tiptop when shooting
Does anybody have experience with this Wonderline running line?
Nope, all my running lines are Cortland braids.
henk
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