slowing down a sinking line

Has anyone heard of trying to slow down a sinking line using a line
dressing? I want to slow down my intermediate type 1 line (a camo cortland
line), and I'm wondering if I can apply mucilin to it. Has anyone tried it?
Also, would mucilin damage the line?

thanks,

"Bob" wrote

I want to slow down my intermediate type 1 line

don't dress your 'floating' line for a while and then use it G

Bob wrote:
Has anyone heard of trying to slow down a sinking line using a line
dressing? I want to slow down my intermediate type 1 line (a camo cortland
line), and I'm wondering if I can apply mucilin to it. Has anyone tried it?
Also, would mucilin damage the line?

thanks,

This might be a better option:

http://www.sierratradingpost.com/xq/...qx/product.htm

brians

"Bob" wrote in :

Has anyone heard of trying to slow down a sinking line using a line
dressing? I want to slow down my intermediate type 1 line (a camo
cortland line), and I'm wondering if I can apply mucilin to it. Has
anyone tried it? Also, would mucilin damage the line?

thanks,




A Cortland sales guy just told me to keep the lines clean, and never put
floatants or any other crap on them. All it does is make dirt stick to the
line, and make it even heavier.

Scott

Scott Seidman wrote in
. 1.4:

"Bob" wrote in :

Has anyone heard of trying to slow down a sinking line using a line
dressing? I want to slow down my intermediate type 1 line (a camo
cortland line), and I'm wondering if I can apply mucilin to it. Has
anyone tried it? Also, would mucilin damage the line?

thanks,




A Cortland sales guy just told me to keep the lines clean, and never
put floatants or any other crap on them. All it does is make dirt
stick to the line, and make it even heavier.

Scott


As a followup, he told me that armor all is death for fly lines.

Scott

Scott Seidman wrote:

A Cortland sales guy just told me to keep the lines clean, and never put
floatants or any other crap on them. All it does is make dirt stick to the
line, and make it even heavier.

Does that include Cortland's fly line dressing? :-)

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rw wrote in
m:

Scott Seidman wrote:

A Cortland sales guy just told me to keep the lines clean, and never
put floatants or any other crap on them. All it does is make dirt
stick to the line, and make it even heavier.

Does that include Cortland's fly line dressing? :-)


They don't call it a dressing-- its a cleaner (but I did have to check
their catalog to make sure its not a dressing!)

He was specifically speaking to grease-based and silicon based products.
He also said Armor All actually melts the top layer of plastics you apply
it to, and that's why it makes your dashboard shiny. Hell on fly lines,
though.

Cortland is an interesting company. They seem to be one of the best in the
world at braiding things, and have plenty of balls in the air that use
their weaving technology that have nothing to do with the fishing industry.

He also told us that most of the fly lines you can buy are actually made by
either Cortland or Scientific Anglers.

Scott

Scott Seidman wrote:

They don't call it a dressing-- its a cleaner (but I did have to check
their catalog to make sure its not a dressing!)

He was specifically speaking to grease-based and silicon based products.

"Grease" is pretty much a thing of the past. If Cortland's flyline
cleaner isn't silicon based, then what is it made of?

I use mucilin when I want to clean a flyline streamside. It works very
well. Just make sure you wipe off all the excess and don't let the line
drag on the ground. Gink and Albolene work well, also.

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Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

rw wrote in
m:

Scott Seidman wrote:

They don't call it a dressing-- its a cleaner (but I did have to
check their catalog to make sure its not a dressing!)

He was specifically speaking to grease-based and silicon based
products.

"Grease" is pretty much a thing of the past. If Cortland's flyline
cleaner isn't silicon based, then what is it made of?

I use mucilin when I want to clean a flyline streamside. It works very
well. Just make sure you wipe off all the excess and don't let the
line drag on the ground. Gink and Albolene work well, also.


If you want to try something where the tip won't sink, try the 555 dyna
tip. They completely redesigned the whole 555 line.

Scott