So I'm back from using my silk line for the first time. Together we -- the line and I -- caught 14 fish, all Rainbows, and it unrolled and floated
perfectly. Now I'm drying it on my Struble dryer. As I do with any line, I first ran it through a damp microfiber towel. An aside: microfiber towels will clean everything thoroughly. Try wetting one and running it over a cork grip. You'll be amazed at
how much dirt is removed. It's 100% safe; I'm a professional rod builder and I use it all the time on rods costing well over $1000. Then I
wound it back onto the reel through the microfiber cloth a second time. Once it was clean, I proceeded to the drying step. Since all the fishing was done
within 25 feet (leader and tippet included) is there any need to dry more line than was on the water? I'm using a Struble dryer and crisscrossed the wraps
so that there is maximum exposure of the line to the New Mexico air (which will dry anything!) Am I doing things correctly?
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Posts: 881 07/02/2009 23:36 |
Reeling up a wet line will carry water into the reel, and wet line will wet the line under it. I would put all of the line that might have gotten wet
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Posts: 226 07/03/2009 00:18 |
I wind the entire line onto my Struble and leave overnight. Better to err on the side of caution I suppose. Haven't thought of using the microfiber cloth
to clean the line. Thanks for the tip!
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Posts: 205 07/03/2009 00:43 |
I need to try the microfiber towel. I always dry the whole line just in case. I reverse my lines every trip (ish) so they wear evenly. I have been using
an old piece of flannel shirt cleaning it onto the strubel...unloop from reel.... loop the leader to that end and onto a wood winder overnight.... then back
onto reel in morning (or whenever I get back to it) with mucillin reversed cleaned and ready to go..... Hitting the beaches on the river at dawn....
expect stiff resistance from the browns and bows...hope to emerge in afternoon victorious.... will be trying the microfiber towel when I get home thanks for
the tip and congrats on the good day!!!!
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Posts: 10 07/03/2009 06:26 |
Thanks for the information. I really enjoyed fishing with silk. It was my first time and I look forward to
many more. I'm always tinkering with fly tackle so taking care of a silk line isn't a chore at all. I actually like it.
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I spool the entirer line when drying, following the theory (or paranoia) that residual water may get into the interior wraps. I wipe prior to drying with a
clean cotton cloth, after with mucilin or Terenzio, then go fishin'.
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Water will wick into your line quite far in by capability action. Always spool your entire line on a dryer. I always do it over night. Better safe than sorry.
Often I have been exhausted on trout streams, uncomfortable, wet, cold, briar scarred, sunburned,
mosquito bitten, but never, with a fly rod in my hand have I been in a place that was less than beautiful.
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