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Furled Leaders - flygoddess - 03-01-2008
For those of you who don't know what this is, it is a leader made from several strands of Thread, Nylon, Mono, Fluoro, etc tapered. NOT BRAIDED!, but furled. There is a difference. Braided sprays water all over where furled doesn't.
Anyway, I have been making them for a few years now. I prefer Uni Thread 6/0. They turn over so beautiful and there is never a memory thing to deal with.
I have a board set up with pegs at different lengths to get a good taper. I was using a DeWaltt drill and doing one side at a time with a clamp in the middle. Well, several people who take their furling very serious gave me the idea to do both at once. Got on e-bay and bought a Conair Hair Braider (I know I said not braided and this really isn't a braider) It does both at the same time and is light as heck.
I also use a tiny silver ring for the tippet end.
Here is a little slide show we did tonight.
http://s44.photobucket.com/albums/f17/FlyGoddess/Big%20Fish/?action=view¤t=FurlingSlideshow.flv
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Re: [flygoddess] Furled Leaders - macfly55 - 03-01-2008
...that was a great video.. not 100% exactly everything you were doing but it was still a cool video... I like your cool little toy.. but..
you said you use little rings for the tippet end.. the ones you sent me before had little loops tied into them?? did you change over to the metal rings recently??
MacFly [cool]
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Re: [macfly55] Furled Leaders - flygoddess - 03-01-2008
Yes I did. I guess I will have to send you the updated one huh!
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Re: [flygoddess] Furled Leaders - macfly55 - 03-01-2008
[
]... that is not why I asked that but yes.. it would be great to get some updated ones.. [
] ...... MacFly [cool]
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Re: [flygoddess] Furled Leaders - Scruffy_Fly - 03-03-2008
Played it twice just to listen to the musak.
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Re: [Scruffy_Fly] Furled Leaders - flygoddess - 03-03-2008
Catchy little tune[laugh]
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Re: [flygoddess] Furled Leaders - tubeN2 - 03-07-2008
Were those really your hands??? You should be a hand model like the ones on TV.[cool]
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