Category: Dries

Two Minute Tip: The Rubber Band Method for Drying CDC

But what about CDC? CDC floats well and repels water naturally, up to a point. Eventually, though it does waterlog and if you catch a fish not only is it full of water but it has a coating of fish slime too. You can try desiccants and dry shake but even this doesn’t fully do the required job. This video explains getting your CDC dry fly clean and dry once more.

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Sweating it

I fished a few deeper spots, not terribly convincingly I have to say as it seemed to become very warm and humid very quickly as the sun lowered in the sky and made you feel that weary hot way

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Milan

This weekend it was my wife’s birthday and planning ahead some time ago, I had booked a couple of cheap flights to Milan, Italy for a weekend city break. I won’t bore you with the site seeing around Milan however on Saturday we walked down the West side of the city centre and in so doing stumbled across a shop, called Fly Fishing Ghilardi.

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The 500

There are Buzzers, Nymphs, Jigs, Perdigones, Wet Flies, Dry Flies, and mini Lures all in a a wee fly box.

They could be yours, maybe in time for Xmas! Simply Like my Facebook page, Like and share the post and for an extra chance to win, subscribe to this website. Note I share your email address with no one!

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