Peeete's Welded Weedless Sand Lance...

The forums are very quiet

The Global FlyFisher forum has existed for almost as long as the site, and the oldest posts are more than 20 years old. Forums aren't what they used to be. Social media has taken over a lot of their roles, and the GFF form is very quiet ... to put it mildly.
We keep everything online for the sake of history, and preserve the posts for as long as possible, but as you will see, quite a few of them aren't in a good shape, but rely on old images hosted elsewhere, which are no longer available, odd codes from old systems and much more, which can't be shown in a decent way.
But the posts are here, and you can - if you insist - start new threads. But don't stay awake waiting for replies, because they are unfortunately few and far apart.
Martin

Patterns

[b:b3b092472e]Happy D.A.C. [Day After Christmas] and a Bodacious Boxing Day!

Wicked winter weather has driven me down into das Bunker...
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where, sometimes, good things happen...
Bug-Bond meets Sand Lance...
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[b:45de7f017e]'Same idea and phoundation but with phur and more conventional tying methods...[/b:45de7f017e]
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by the way...
The acrylic adhesion process is NOT nearly as effective with phur and hair as it is with pheatherz...
There has to be an anchor point and pheatherz have that characteristic...
hair and phur, NOT SO MUCH... 'lacking a proper foot print to take hold...
Regarding the suspect phly in question... clumped and wrapped...
light cured acrylic completed the head...
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Acrylics don't seem to have the same invasive sticky tenacity as the toluene rich goop, softex, and marine adhesives...
AND they DON'T have the intrusive toxic odors... [as in drain bamage!]
I find Tuffleye and Bug-Bond easier to manage and very effective for my intended applications...
They have their limitations but the good dwarfs the bad and they set up "on command"... my new favourite medium...
epoxy and toluene be gone!
'a phew more conventional synthetic sand eel insinuendos...
[img:45de7f017e]http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa176/Phracas/IMG_8137.jpg[/img:45de…]

[b:45de7f017e]'tying weather and...
"global warming"...[/b:45de7f017e]
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[b:45de7f017e]'Same idea and phoundation but with phur and more conventional tying methods...[/b:45de7f017e]
[img:45de7f017e]http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa176/Phracas/IMG_8086.jpg[/img:45de…]
[img:45de7f017e]http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa176/Phracas/IMG_8088.jpg[/img:45de…]
by the way...
The acrylic adhesion process is NOT nearly as effective with phur and hair as it is with pheatherz...
There has to be an anchor point and pheatherz have that characteristic...
hair and phur, NOT SO MUCH... 'lacking a proper foot print to take hold...
Regarding the suspect phly in question... clumped and wrapped...
light cured acrylic completed the head...
[img:45de7f017e]http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa176/Phracas/IMG_8086-1.jpg[/img:45…]
Acrylics don't seem to have the same invasive sticky tenacity as the toluene rich goop, softex, and marine adhesives...
AND they DON'T have the intrusive toxic odors... [as in drain bamage!]
I find Tuffleye and Bug-Bond easier to manage and very effective for my intended applications...
They have their limitations but the good dwarfs the bad and they set up "on command"... my new favourite medium...
epoxy and toluene be gone!
'a phew more conventional synthetic sand eel insinuendos...
[img:45de7f017e]http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa176/Phracas/IMG_8137.jpg[/img:45de…]

[b:45de7f017e]'tying weather and...
"global warming"...[/b:45de7f017e]
[img:45de7f017e]http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa176/Phracas/IMG_0486.jpg[/img:45de…]

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