Taking Care of Your Flies
Yesterday I did something I’ve been meaning to do for a long time and just couldn’t get around to it.
I took every single fly out of their disorganised boxes and separated the dry flies from all others … over time the nymphs had become mixed with dry flies and wet flies had got mixed with nymphs, the mayflies were in the hopper box and so it went.
Having done the separation (and having bought yet another fly box) I put the nymphs neatly arranged into their own box and the wet flies went in another. But the important work I did was to take every single dry fly and dunk it into a powerful liquid floatant substance.
The flies were allowed to dry over a 36 hour period before placing them back into their own private fly box. This treatment will improve the floatation of the dry flies very significantly
I also used the dunk on my range of yarn bite indicators … they took longer to dry and are now ready for whatever the waves and currents throw at them. Of course I combed the yarn indicators to give them a really roughed up look which means they will float even better and be able to be seen at quite a distance.
