Great tips mate I love fishing dry flies i will be bringing a band with me every time I go fishing thanks for sharing big like from me and tight line's my friend 👍
Hi Kenny, That's a great tip, using the rubber band. They come in useful for all sorts of things. When you're using frogs fanny, make sure you are upwind of it, as I think it contains asbestos.
Great little clip thanks ..I struggle with dry fly fishing would be great to learn what solutions to add to appropriate fly ..ie cdc, sedge etc and I’ve been fishing for years !!
Hi John. Cdc on the water you are best to use a dry dessicant like frogs fanny or Dry shake dessicant. In deer hair or indeed any other dry gink is usually fine though you can use dessicant too. You can pre treat CDC with silicone based treatments like Nikwax spray (the stuff you use for reproof ing clothing) and dry it with a hair drier (ideally before you tie a fly with it). You also get liquid mucilin to pre treat dry flies. Dip it in, then shake then dry on a heater or radiator. Finally a little known but very effective on the water treatment for cdc flies is to use green silicone mucilin. It works best on flies like shuttlecocks. If you VERY gently brush the CDC in the set paste it almost renders the CDC unsinkable. Over do it though and you will destroy the fly so be extremely sparing. All these methods use along with the rubber band drying method
Kenneth Halley ah thanks Kenneth for taking the the time to reply..maybe I could email / message privately won’t bombard you with questions!! Was never really taught dry fly fishing so even after many years fishing still clueless!! Never have the confidence a small fly say a 16/18 that I can’t see will catch !
Yeah in essence it will but most flies are less prone to sliming up than CDC, but yes I use it with deer hair flies and more traditional hackled flies just to get the fibres puffed out. And these other types of flies can often be dried out just using floatants and stuff which CDC doesn't respond so well to. But no reason not to use this method with other flies. Thanks for your comment.
Currently I have been using Frogs Fanny but they are all kind of similar. If your fly is up to getting shaken, the Orvis stuff is quite good, if you prefer to brush it on Frogs Fanny or some of the others of a similar fine powdery nature, is probably better. I would though say make sure you knock off the excess as much as possible as its apt to create a wee puddle of powdery residue around the fly for the first couple of casts after dressing it.
Nifty tip but would it not be quicker and easier to put a new fly on. I suppose it's either a lot of band pinging or a lot of fly changing, take your pick. Lol.
Only takes a few seconds to ping it dry. The time taken to dig a fly box out, find a similar fly (assuming you had one) and then the loss of tippet in tying it on... And I wouldn't advocate single use flies as a normal aspect of fly fishing. I want mine to last as long as possible.
I personally wouldn't use gink on. Cdc dry but up to yourself, if it works for you. Silicon mucilin is quite good on cdc if you are very sparing how you apply it but not found much to beat the rubber band and a little dessicant powder.
Helps the net float especially useful if you want to hold the fish in the net while you sort out lines, hooks or take a photo, the fish is held quite safely in the net.
Great tip!!! Hats off for keeping a straight face saying frogs fanny.
Good content mate!! 👍
Ha ha!
Cheers Kenny, good tip. Off to check the 3rd drawer down for an elacky band amongst the old batteries.
Cheers Will, hope to see you around over the winter.
Great tips mate I love fishing dry flies i will be bringing a band with me every time I go fishing thanks for sharing big like from me and tight line's my friend 👍
thanks for the great idea with the rubber band... much better then shaking...
You're welcome!
Ken thanks for that Tip will use next time I fish with CDC.
Glad you found it useful- I always carry an elastic band on me
Greeting from Taiwan. You are clever, thank you!
Thank you very much!
Hi Kenny,
That's a great tip, using the rubber band. They come in useful for all sorts of things.
When you're using frogs fanny, make sure you are upwind of it, as I think it contains asbestos.
I lost half a jar on a windy day!
Great tip Kenny
Thank you
Great tip! Thanks!
No problem!
So simple but looked effective tight lines
It's brilliant, works all the time and so easy. Just make sure you rinse the fly well first.
Definitely using this tip next time out
One of the best Dry fly cleaning/Drying methods, Works for Hackled flies too though its especially effective on CDC.
Great tip👍
Great! Thanks!
You're welcome!
Nice one.
Thanks!
Super never seen this before thank you 😊
I didn't invent it but it is a brilliant way to reinvigorate CDC. Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for commenting.
Clever
Would love to say I invented it but alas.... :-)
Great little clip thanks ..I struggle with dry fly fishing would be great to learn what solutions to add to appropriate fly ..ie cdc, sedge etc and I’ve been fishing for years !!
Hi John. Cdc on the water you are best to use a dry dessicant like frogs fanny or Dry shake dessicant. In deer hair or indeed any other dry gink is usually fine though you can use dessicant too. You can pre treat CDC with silicone based treatments like Nikwax spray (the stuff you use for reproof ing clothing) and dry it with a hair drier (ideally before you tie a fly with it). You also get liquid mucilin to pre treat dry flies. Dip it in, then shake then dry on a heater or radiator. Finally a little known but very effective on the water treatment for cdc flies is to use green silicone mucilin. It works best on flies like shuttlecocks. If you VERY gently brush the CDC in the set paste it almost renders the CDC unsinkable. Over do it though and you will destroy the fly so be extremely sparing. All these methods use along with the rubber band drying method
Kenneth Halley ah thanks Kenneth for taking the the time to reply..maybe I could email / message privately won’t bombard you with questions!! Was never really taught dry fly fishing so even after many years fishing still clueless!! Never have the confidence a small fly say a 16/18 that I can’t see will catch !
Good 👍
Thanks
Cool tip.. Thanks.
Kenneth Halley
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Glad you found it useful- I always carry an elastic band on me
Great little trick. Seems like should work for all dry flies. No?
Yeah in essence it will but most flies are less prone to sliming up than CDC, but yes I use it with deer hair flies and more traditional hackled flies just to get the fibres puffed out. And these other types of flies can often be dried out just using floatants and stuff which CDC doesn't respond so well to. But no reason not to use this method with other flies. Thanks for your comment.
thanks for the tip you did and showed I certain try it out. Tell me what the brand of the desiccant you are using with the small brush. Thank you.
Currently I have been using Frogs Fanny but they are all kind of similar. If your fly is up to getting shaken, the Orvis stuff is quite good, if you prefer to brush it on Frogs Fanny or some of the others of a similar fine powdery nature, is probably better. I would though say make sure you knock off the excess as much as possible as its apt to create a wee puddle of powdery residue around the fly for the first couple of casts after dressing it.
Nifty tip but would it not be quicker and easier to put a new fly on. I suppose it's either a lot of band pinging or a lot of fly changing, take your pick. Lol.
Only takes a few seconds to ping it dry. The time taken to dig a fly box out, find a similar fly (assuming you had one) and then the loss of tippet in tying it on... And I wouldn't advocate single use flies as a normal aspect of fly fishing. I want mine to last as long as possible.
Tie a fly on in the failing light or darkness ?
Try that ?
kitchen roll and Gink for body!
I personally wouldn't use gink on. Cdc dry but up to yourself, if it works for you. Silicon mucilin is quite good on cdc if you are very sparing how you apply it but not found much to beat the rubber band and a little dessicant powder.
Great help. What is the idea with the foam around your net?
Helps the net float especially useful if you want to hold the fish in the net while you sort out lines, hooks or take a photo, the fish is held quite safely in the net.
terrible, accent to strong to understand him, sorry.
Sorry you couldn't follow it, turn the sound off, I think the principle should be easy enough to follow from the pictures.
Great tip! Thank you!