"Stephen Welsh" wrote in message
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Is your J shaped blade used for cutting anything?

Stephen,
Yes, it cuts the branch above the fly, which then falls at
your feet so you can get the fly. I once used it to cut a branch
across a narrow, deep, fast flowing stream, but I also cut my
leader. My son was fishing the on the other side so I asked him
to see if he could retrieve the branch which was rapidly going
down stream. He started running, stepped on an unstable rock,
twisted his ankle and did a perfect dive into the stream with his
rod in his hand. He managed to keep his rod and retrieve the
branch.
I never let him live it down.
Ernie