Larry L wrote:
"Ken Fortenberry" wrote:
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 don't disagree with your overall assessment of the cheapass FFer,

but

I used 1 1/2 pints of FF last season, give or take

look at the size of the commercially packed stuff and you'll see that is one
hell of a lot of those little bottles A new bottle of the commercial stuff
won't last me more than a couple long days, usually.


The substitute saves me a pretty good amount of change, over time


As for other floatants, I happen to be fond of two of the most pricey brands
... Hydrophobe from France and Tiemco's Dry Magic depending on the fly
type, and I don't begrudge the $$ for either since they work so well

Larry L ( a cheapass who fishes one hell of a lot of CDC patterns with their
touchy floatant needs and who demands the functional quality he wants but
still tries hard to keep cost/day as low as possible .... and thinks of that
quest, like choosing and using tackle in the most efficient manner, as part
of the 'art' of FFing ... )

CDC notwithstanding that is a *lot* of Frog's Fanny. A whole bottle
every two days ?!!? Have you ever tried an Amadou ? I find if I gently
squeeze the fly with an Amadou I don't need near as much Frog's Fanny.

I can't find them in the US, only the synthetic substitute Samadou, but
it's available overseas.

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Ken Fortenberry