Jarmo Hurri wrote:
Ken ... A silk line won't float at all unless you dress it, usually
Ken with red Mucilin.

And does it even then float worse than an ordinary plastic line?


Ken It floats about the same for awhile, but it won't float all day
Ken like a plastic line will.

I guess that as scientists, we need experiments: this is just all too
imprecise. :-)

But if it were to float just the same, then the density explanation
would not hold. I think that the task of the dressing is just to keep
the line from soaking water, that is, to keep its density the same all
the time.

I'll leave the physics to others. All I know is I fish with it as
long as it floats and then I go drink Budweiser. I had the conceit
at one point that after the line started to sink I would strip it
off the reel, turn it around and fish the other end of the double
taper until it too started to sink, but that's when I felt I had
to fish all day. I rarely fish more than 3-4 hours at a time anymore
and the silk line will float just fine for that long.

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Ken Fortenberry