
Rupert
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Thanks for your replies guys. Luckily for me Rain-X is an international motor product so I will be able to get my mits on some (I live in UK). I will also try some of the dry powder J Johnson mentioned. Not the same make but until now I didn't even realise you could get a powder floatant. I just kept whacking the Gink on. Anyway I will report back my results. I personally think this is quite an important aspect in the game where the difference between success and failure can be quite slim. Anyway thanks for your views guys.
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Anybody? Does anybody who has read my thread have an opinion on it? Its just that I'm about to buy some new flies and try some permanent floatant. If its bad idea I'd prefer to know now rather than once I've bought some expensive flies and put the floatant on them. Any view at all?
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Hi, I was wondering if you could tell me whether applying say permafloat or any other permanent fly float to a dry fly is in your opinion a good or bad thing? Presumably this means you never need to grease your fly when you are out on the water (hence permanant). From obervations of my catching rate, I believe that when you are out in the water putting a floatant like the famous Gink on either your fly or line will badly affect your success rate. This I believe is because gink makes your fly look oily in the water and unnatural looking from below. A trout is suspicious of this oily fly. If you put gink on the line as well that makes matters even worse. Now you have an abnormal looking oily fly and a very visible leader. I have found that when not greasing anything I have much more success as the fish is successfully deceived. However not greasing my fly means that after even a few casts its sinking, hence why I want to find out your opinion on permanent fly floatant like permafloat? Is there a particularly good one to get? Can anybody recommend? My oberserations on greasing fly/line are supported when I dipped into an old book I found "The trout and fly" by Brian Clarke page 86. This shows revealing photos from under the water as to what greased fly/line looks like. Anyway pros/cons of permanent floatant anybody? You may ask why don't I just tie flies that are made of floatable materials. Well truth be known, I still buy the majority of my flies as my tying skills are pretty novice at the moment.
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thanks for the information there. I am grateful for your comments !!
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I'm a newbie to fly fishing and apologies for asking questions which are probably basic to you guys. Please feel free to roll your eyes!! I've looked for the answers to these questions in Google but am none the wiser. What is a hackled fly? What is it supposed to represent on presentation? What is a sedge fly? What is it supposed to represent on presentation? What is a winged wet? What is it supposed to represent on presentation? I do know about nymphs but do not understand what a winged wet is supposed to be or what depth its supposed to be fished. What is a buzzer? What is it supposed to represent on presentation? What is a caddis fly? What is it supposed to represent on presentation? What is CDC? These are all names referred to flies in the Sportfish magasine. I know I could just "match the hatch" with what I see but I'd prefer to know what these terms mean. If anybody doesn't mind dropping a line about what each term means I'd be grateful. Cheers.