09-17-2006, 05:02 PM
I love that Griffith's 14/0 thread for sure.
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A Whiting Farms Tier I know likes to use DMC25 white, which is a 4 strand thread. He peels off on strand. He ties it in with a contrasting fly tying thread such as red, black, green makeing a good thread base. Then wraps the DMC up the hook and ties off with the tying thread. When you wet it the fly takes on a translucent look with the base thread showing through the white.
I never fish with size 28-30-32 flys. Figure that you then need to use 7x and 8x tippet. Then I figure you have lots of break offs and leave hooks and maybe tippet in a majority of the fish. If you don't break off then the fish is pretty tuckerd out by the time you land em. On big fish, my understanding is it that you have a higher precentage of latten mortality if you severely tire them. Just my opinion without any real experience at that. I don't know how you would know for sure about latten mortality unless you did some kind of controlled study in a confined tank.
......... But the main reason is I have a hard enough time tying a size 26 on to a tippet.
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Fly Goddess -
A Whiting Farms Tier I know likes to use DMC25 white, which is a 4 strand thread. He peels off on strand. He ties it in with a contrasting fly tying thread such as red, black, green makeing a good thread base. Then wraps the DMC up the hook and ties off with the tying thread. When you wet it the fly takes on a translucent look with the base thread showing through the white.
I never fish with size 28-30-32 flys. Figure that you then need to use 7x and 8x tippet. Then I figure you have lots of break offs and leave hooks and maybe tippet in a majority of the fish. If you don't break off then the fish is pretty tuckerd out by the time you land em. On big fish, my understanding is it that you have a higher precentage of latten mortality if you severely tire them. Just my opinion without any real experience at that. I don't know how you would know for sure about latten mortality unless you did some kind of controlled study in a confined tank.
......... But the main reason is I have a hard enough time tying a size 26 on to a tippet.
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