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**Ken Fortenberry[_2_]** · February 13th, 2009, 06:51 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly

wrote:
Al Klamps wrote:
I took a couple of spoons worth of Outback reproofing cream and
dissolved the stuff in white gas. The test flies keep on floating

Even while they were burning...?

IAC, why in the hell would you pollute and potentially poison with this
concoction when there are safer DIY alternatives and inexpensive commercial
products? ...

There is something in most fly fisherman's DNA which makes them
cheap to the point of absurdity. They have some sort of compulsion
to do something clever in order to save a few pennies.

I remember the great quest for the Frog's Fanny substitute. Now
Frog's Fanny is $5 a bottle and you'd have to fish a *lot* to
go through more than one bottle a year so a year's supply is no
more than $10. Good lord, you'd have though these guys were searching
for the Holy damn Grail. To save ten bucks !! LOL !!

I figure some guy somewhere figured out this stuff was good, went
to all the trouble to put it into nice little containers, market
it and so on, so the least I could do is reward his enterprise
and my local fly shop with a measly ten bucks a year.

--
Ken Fortenberry