What is your opinion on using vinegar on a hand tied tapered leader and what way do you soften the leader. Please reply quick as I'm making leaders for a very impatient friend who wants them by tommorow morning.

Flyinghigh

Who is he and by what time do you need to know?

He a friend who is rewarding my efforts with some flies he is tying for me tonight (personally requested by me to be the biggest b@ll@che ever) any time before 12.

Flyinghigh

What Sh*t is this...?? catch the fish first, then get the vinegar out......

Unless Ive missed something over the years I think all vinegar will do is degrease the line. As for softening it thats down to the material itself
that your using,the heat of the day may soften a stiff leader material to
some degree.Hope this helps a bit.

Its great with chips.
Tight Lines

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I am certain that in a recent fly fishing magazine it say something about after tying your leader to place it in vinegar and hot water for three minutes as it does something to the line. Agree about the vinegar being good with the fish but want to know what it does to what you use to catch the fish.

Flyinghigh

---------- Post added at 08:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:57 PM ----------

Wait , consulted my magazine rack and I found it it was in the trout and salmon in the bit about french nymphing, page ten last column.

Flyinghigh

Still a load of Cr*p, whoever wrote it, and you can tell them, I SAID SO.

It is ****! i know cos i tried it

Bought the Diawa tapered leaders on the advice of a scottish rivers team member, followed his advice about boiling it in water and vinegar for 5 minutes, when you take it out and stretch it its fine but as soon as it cools down or is spooled the memory comes back, total waste of time and i used the last of my vinegar so had to have my chips without it gutted!

So dont waste your time, use decent mono/fluro and you shouldnt need to soften it, a good stretch should sort out any memory

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