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Floss Blow Line?
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[Image: happy.gif][font "Garamond"][#008000][size 4]Was surprised to find out how much stuff there is on-line about dapping. Here is one page [since it is copyrighted material] that provides additional insight on this subject:[/size][/#008000][/font]
[font "Garamond"][size 4][#000080]Jon the Daptist returned in May with a rod that he bought for me at Bennett’s of Sheffield, a big British tackle dealer, along with a 50-meter spool of Bob Church's blowline. The blowline cost $6, the rod $200 the same as the French rod, but it was 20 feet long, came in four 5-foot sections, and had guides. Unable to buy a telescoping dapping rod, Jon assured me that the 20-foot length made it ideal for dapping, For the record, the rod, made by Silstar, was an Executive Class Match 600 pole designed for one of those match fishing competitions I previously mentioned, If I wished, Jon said, I could have a. much longer one, and he broke open the Bennett’s catalog that he'd brought along and, with a laugh pointed to a 47½ foot pole for $6,000 U.S.
I declared my satisfaction with the 20-foot pole, or rod, or whatever you want to call it, and he and I immediately marched out to the lawn for my first lesson in up-to-date dapping, on the lawn, Jon rigged up the rod. He put an old fly reel of mine on the butt and snaked the fly line through the guides, Next he attached an 8 foot length of 12-pound-test mono-filament to the fly --
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Floss Blow Line? - by ChrisTheFish - 01-03-2009, 06:58 PM
Re: [ChrisTheFish] Floss Blow Line? - by riverdog - 01-03-2009, 08:58 PM
Re: [flygoddess] Floss Blow Line? - by riverdog - 01-04-2009, 01:42 AM
Re: [riverdog] Floss Blow Line? - by flygoddess - 01-04-2009, 01:51 AM
Re: [ChrisTheFish] Floss Blow Line? - by macfly55 - 01-04-2009, 03:04 AM
Re: [ChrisTheFish] Floss Blow Line? - by macfly55 - 01-04-2009, 03:20 AM
Re: [macfly55] Floss Blow Line? - by Dryrod - 01-04-2009, 05:02 AM
Re: [Dryrod] Floss Blow Line? - by ChrisTheFish - 01-04-2009, 07:29 PM
Re: [ChrisTheFish] Floss Blow Line? - by Dryrod - 01-05-2009, 06:41 PM
Re: [Dryrod] Floss Blow Line? - by flygoddess - 01-05-2009, 10:34 PM
Re: [flygoddess] Floss Blow Line? - by macfly55 - 01-05-2009, 11:50 PM
Re: [macfly55] Floss Blow Line? - by Dryrod - 01-06-2009, 12:49 AM
Re: [Dryrod] Floss Blow Line? - by macfly55 - 01-06-2009, 05:41 AM
Re: [macfly55] Floss Blow Line? - by Dryrod - 01-06-2009, 07:50 PM
Re: [Dryrod] Floss Blow Line? - by riverdog - 01-06-2009, 08:51 PM
Re: [Dryrod] Floss Blow Line? - by macfly55 - 01-06-2009, 09:29 PM
Re: [macfly55] Floss Blow Line? - by Dryrod - 01-06-2009, 11:44 PM
Re: [Dryrod] Floss Blow Line? - by ChrisTheFish - 01-07-2009, 03:10 AM
Re: [Dryrod] Floss Blow Line? - by macfly55 - 01-07-2009, 05:27 AM
Re: [Dryrod] Floss Blow Line? - by ChrisTheFish - 01-06-2009, 05:48 AM
Re: [Dryrod] Floss Blow Line? - by macfly55 - 01-05-2009, 03:13 AM
Re: [ChrisTheFish] Floss Blow Line? - by Warchild - 03-20-2009, 12:58 AM
Re: [Warchild] Floss Blow Line? - by macfly55 - 03-20-2009, 03:02 AM
Re: [Warchild] Floss Blow Line? - by Scruffy_Fly - 03-20-2009, 02:37 PM

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