On 14 Nov, 18:31, Dave LaCourse wrote:
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.

You don´t have to boil them dumbo, you just need to warm them up to
reprogram the memory. It is quite immaterial how you warm them up, but
it is easiest to do with hot water. You can not harm the nylon by so
doing, and it is quick and easy.

The amount of coiling in stored nylon is a function of the amount of
time they are in this state, and whether they are subjected to much
more than "normal" heat.

If you straighten them in hot water, and then place them back in the
packets, and keep them in a cool place, they will have much less
tendency to coil.

Stretching nylon has a more deleterious effect than warming it up, and
will not in any case remove coiling.

MC