Cleaning fly line with Albolene?

Midstream, midday when the floating line is starting to become a sink tip line I have considered giving it a cleaning with Albolene to see if that would help. A little wash and dry. But I'm not sure what the outcome will be, so I have yet to do it.

Will this help, make it worse, strip the coating off the line?
I know there are products available for line cleaning but I am wondering specifically about Aldolene.
(you never know when midstream you may need to get lipstick off you flyline ;-)
Comments....

Goat wrote:

Midstream, midday when the floating line is starting to become a sink
tip line I have considered giving it a cleaning with Albolene to see
if that would help. A little wash and dry. But I'm not sure what the
outcome will be, so I have yet to do it.

Will this help, make it worse, strip the coating off the line?
I know there are products available for line cleaning but I am wondering
specifically about Aldolene.
(you never know when midstream you may need to get lipstick off you
flyline ;-)
Comments....

I tried it on my fly-line when I first read about it on ROFF, but
didn't notice it making any particular difference. Since then I just
use the cleaner that comes with the line (Cortland), and have found that
the most important things seems to be doing *regular* cleanings, rather
than finding any special concoction to dress the line with.

Obviously, YMMV and since this is ROFF, it most likely will. :-)


Chuck Vance

Goat wrote:
Midstream, midday when the floating line is starting to become a sink tip line I have considered giving it a cleaning with Albolene to see if that would help. A little wash and dry. But I'm not sure what the outcome will be, so I have yet to do it.

Will this help, make it worse, strip the coating off the line?
I know there are products available for line cleaning but I am wondering specifically about Aldolene.
(you never know when midstream you may need to get lipstick off you flyline ;-)
Comments....

A few points:

1. Albolene is a petroleum product, and I would feel uncomfortable
using it on fly lines. I stick with silicone based compounds.

2. If you dress your line while it is wet, moisture will be trapped bt
the dressing, ensuring that your line will continue to sink.

3. I have owned many floating lines over the years, some expensive,
some cheap, most in between, and they all have onr thing in
common.....the first few inches of the line doesn't float very well. I
have never really found this to be a problem.

3. I have owned many floating lines over the years, some expensive,
some cheap, most in between, and they all have onr thing in
common.....the first few inches of the line doesn't float very well. I
have never really found this to be a problem.

Figured out a cure for this. Before first use or taken out of storage for
the winter, apply some flexament or other sealer to the very end of the
line. The line absorbs water through the core and this is what causes it to
sink. Doesn't happen anymore unless I get little cracks in the line from
use.

--
Frank Reid
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"Frank Reid" wrote

Figured out a cure for this. Before first use or taken out of storage for
the winter, apply some flexament or other sealer to the very end of the
line.

bring some to the clave, will ya?

yfitons
wayno (you *are* coming to the western clave, aren't you?)

Figured out a cure for this. Before first use or taken out of storage
for the winter, apply some flexament or other sealer to the very end of
the line.

bring some to the clave, will ya?

yfitons
wayno (you *are* coming to the western clave, aren't you?)

Any sealant will do. You can use wader repair goo. Will bring some.
Yes, I am going to the clave. Will work till about 1 today, finish packing
and fly out at 11 a.m. tomorrow with Cyprych and Epps. Clave is gonna be
tough sledding, gonna have to suffer through Gene's gourmet cooking all
week, some of the best fishing on the Madison in years, Oregon micro-brews,
lodges where you walk 100 feet from your cabin to the river, and all kinds
of other nasty stuff.

--
Frank Reid
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"Frank Reid"
Figured out a cure for this. Before first use or taken out of storage for
the winter, apply some flexament or other sealer to the very end of the
line. The line absorbs water through the core and this is what causes it
to
sink. Doesn't happen anymore unless I get little cracks in the line from
use.

--
Frank Reid

that, and after a couple of false casts and I will dress the first few feet
of a line while I am on the shore. Actually, I have some old Cortland
patches and I put a dollop of Dab (by Cortland) on the old patch and use
that while I am stream side....works great. Makes that line sit right on top
of the water. I'll even dress the first few feet of my leader at times.

john