Has anyone got any images of a fly line being made? It might sound daft but I would like to see the process from raw material, to machinery used, to end product.

We talk about them often enough and spend a fortune on them, so would like to see whats invoved in manufacturing them.

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Can't find fly line but these are interesting. I laughed at 3:21 on the graphite rod vid! Why he says "cast your bait, sit back and wait" at the end is beyond me.

You know what WG, so do I,
I like seeing things made, often wonder how they do it and all that.
S.

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"A glint of sun has warmed the air,The flies will soon hatch out, To lure and tempt from their deep lair, The bonnie speckled trout." SKB tackle supporter. I love Furled Leaders.

No pictures here but from the descriptions it seems the actually raw products would be pretty boring to look at.

http://www.midcurrent.com/articles/g...nglines_1.aspx

perhaps we could ask troutflyrod to post a video of how the bamboo cane rods are made out in the democratic republic of free china supporting the employment of local artisans and their children.

The raw products probably are pretty dull, its what they do with them and how they do it that has me curious.

Just spotted the link, interesting.

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The next players onto the Flyline scene are - oddly - the Chinese .

Their interestingly aromatic products ( somewhere between pig manure and human vomit to my ill educated nostrils ) are ,I believe , increasingly being imported by such diverse supporters of British Industry as GAC and a variety of other small traders made good on the back of amusing marketing and cruelly sweated Chinese labour !

Now at a rough guess there is less than no chance of anybody in the Flylines Trade letting you in for a casual look around - let alone posting images of 'How To Do It Good ' to the Chinese and their little pals , on this or any other forum !

Many years ago I was Assembly Manager of Sturmey Archer Gears and at the time I did wonder at the sense of Higher Management allowing parties of Chinese ( in Mao Suits and carrying cameras - which they took lots of pictures with - of Assmble processes in the main ) round my operation .
And then 10,000 of us went down the road over the next decade.
I wonder why ?

Good luck with your Industrial Espionage !

It strikes me that the MoneyMen in the City of London are next in line for the nasty shock ! The only Chinese I ever saw incline to the Left were going round corners on their bicycles in Beijing - and , my God , they are seriously smart at business !

Steve P