Fulling Mill Fluorocarbon is in my opinion a fairly reliable line which I have to say I have had no major problems with. It is cheap and pretty good value compared to most fluorocarbons. The only issues I have with it are that its fairly stiff, and its relatively high diameter for each breaking strain compared to the more exotic lines.
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A memorable day at Menteith for the wrong reasons, though not the disaster of last week when the boat broke down and I had to drift to the fishery to get out! ( note, it’s not a fishery boat!).
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So I was out bright and early for a 4 hour Catch and Release ticket on what turned out to be a nippy but otherwise stunning morning, and I was first there, well, if you don’t count a guy out in a boat, I can only guess he is the groundsman or the owner.
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For a long time I have found that John Emerson’s CDC dry fly ( colloquially known as the Shit fly) has been a hugely effective fly for the Browns at Pendreich. I have bought these from John at Uniqueflies because I struggled with tying such small flies and could not get the split wing right. I bought some Semperfli Nano Silk recently and this helps hugely both in terms of how strong it is but how much easier 12/0 thread makes tying such small flies.
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Don’t read this expecting to see much about fishing, as the fishing very much took second place!
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