On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:02:39 -0800 (PST), Mike
wrote:
I just found this as well, which Myron posted. There are so many
thread on this stuuf now that it is hard to follow;
http://outdoorsbest.zeroforum.com/zerothread?id=519707
for anybody too lazy to read it ( and for Oakies, who apparently donīt
know what links are for)
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Our local guide and assistant coach was a man named Antonio. He
introduced us to the techniques and flies that they use in northern
Portugal. Tony was very well versed in some techniques and tips that
we here in the USA have probably not seen to much of. I thought I'd
share some of them with you and maybe you can use a few of them on
your home waters.
1. Boiling your leaders - Much of the fishing we did was at a very
short distance with extremely light tippets. Tony boiled his leaders
for 5 minutes. The bioling turned them into basically one solid length
of shock gum with very little loss of breaking strength. We dry fly
fished with 7 foot of tippet and a 9 foot leader. With a quick hook
set the stretch and suppleness of a boiled leader kept us from
breaking off fish.
Well, then, I suggest anyone who wishes seek out Tony and become his
disciple...maybe you two could, er, hook up and form the most powerful
fishing information league the world has ever seen...OTOH, if one wants
"shock gum," RIO sells it...rather than supplying a recipe and a
teakettle with their leaders...
Oh, by-the-by...Tony is just as wrong as you...is Tony's last name
"Germuga" and does he hate them scaramouches and jamokes at some store
somewhere in Yankeeland?
MEOW,
R