On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:14:23 -0800, Mike
wrote:

He already told you that the advice I gave him worked.

Yeah, but now he has the problem of boiling it at stream side. Of
course he could walk around with a very long electrical cord and a
hair dryer. Works just as well. *Or* he can learn to do it the way
all of us do it - by drawing it through his fingers. He was mistaken
when he said it was the tippet section. That didn't make sense to me.
It is the butt section. Pull slower and harder and that will
straighten out. Once you straighten the leader out, when you coil it
up to put in your vest or wind it on your reel, the memory will return
with, ta da, more coils. There is no hot water streamside.