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Derek Burwood
October 7th, 2003, 04:51 PM
I would like to try tying some salmon flies on blind eye hooks.
Is there an alternative to silkworm gut as these flies wont be used for
fishing ?

Thanks in advanced

Hooked
October 8th, 2003, 09:32 AM
Yes.

Try a furled leader.

Or just try using plain old mono.


"Derek Burwood" > wrote in message
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> I would like to try tying some salmon flies on blind eye hooks.
> Is there an alternative to silkworm gut as these flies wont be used for
> fishing ?
>
> Thanks in advanced
>
>