old-time floatant(?)

On 7/27/06 12:58 PM, in article
, "rw"
wrote:

Willi wrote:
rw wrote:


BTW, I don't recommend snorting Frog's Fanny.



Speaking from experience?

Nope.

They used to use carbon tetrachloride as a solvent for the wax which is
where the danger was that George referred to.

Right. My recollection was faulty. Carbon tetrachloride is nasty stuff.

And Bergman mentions it in his book as a substitute for using gasoline,
along with ether or benzine.

I suppose that while I enjoy reading the old guys, some caution should be
used when following any recipes involving chemicals!

I also read through a short bit of the section on dry fly sizes. He talks
about fishing the Firehole and being told to use "small flies". He has a
hard time finding anything small in his boxes, small being 16 or 18!

Bill