12-15-2005, 02:38 PM
On the clear intermediates:
I will often stretch my whole line prior to hitting the water. I will hook the fly into a tree trunk and back off and stretch the line. The irony of my experience is that the line becomes most pleasurable to use after a fish has given it some good yanks and stretched it naturally so perhaps there is something to the idea that getting it wet helps get rid of the memory problems. If I find some extra funds I'll probably give the Cortland line a try.
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I will often stretch my whole line prior to hitting the water. I will hook the fly into a tree trunk and back off and stretch the line. The irony of my experience is that the line becomes most pleasurable to use after a fish has given it some good yanks and stretched it naturally so perhaps there is something to the idea that getting it wet helps get rid of the memory problems. If I find some extra funds I'll probably give the Cortland line a try.
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