Zimbo wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
It's a great fly line, it may sound expensive but properly
taken care of it will outlast 5 or 6 plastic lines. All I
have to do now is live long enough to realize the cost
benefit. ;-)

I bought a Phoenix silk fly line several years ago with this same
mindset. Unfortunately, a mouse got into my fly fishing gear and
gnawed the silk line into several pieces. 1 out of 1 garage mice
prefer silk to plastic.

Is it just me or have silk lines gone way up in price in the last,
say, 5 years. Seems like I bought mine for $90 which seemed like a
ripoff at the time (not that it stopped me) but that was nothing
compared to the $250ish today.

Phoenix silk lines cost about the same as they always have,
it's the US dollar going down the toilet that makes them much
more expensive to import.

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Ken Fortenberry