Asking for thoughts on the C & F Fly Threaders

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Draketake

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Tapping into our group knowledge and experience base. Has anyone tried the C & F Fly Threaders? If so, how do they work and how do they hold up?

I am pondering ordering the Long Standard Size and the Long Midge size. I'm also thinking that being able to pre load the flies, onto the threader, may be a game changer, for some of my older fishing companions and eventually... myself.

Thank you for any and all help.

Bob
 
I have some that came with flybox I bought years ago.
Used them for 20 and under sized bugs. Came in handy on my trips to the San Juan.
Don't use them much, but they saved time when fishing 20 somethings all day that's for sure.
 
Yeah, they still work fine, but I don't use them a lot, just when fishing super small stuff, which I don't do very often.
I'd guess they are about 18 years old at this point...
 
@Mossback,

Thank you once again.

Where I/We fish, we end up using small to very small flies a lot. I think the threaders will help us out.

Bob
 
Draketake said:
@Mossback,

Thank you once again.

Where I/We fish, we end up using small to very small flies a lot. I think the threaders will help us out.

Bob
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They save time, and frustration...
 
Hearing of these made me curious as age brings it’s own problems stream side, diminished eyesight plus loss of fingertips.
So researching these last night, is it easier to slip the fly onto the wire initially than to slip limp mono through the hook eye?
 
They work pretty well but I kept misplacing/losing mine and sometimes struggled to see well enough to get the threader through the eye. On the really tiny stuff, I struggled to get the doubled tippet through as well. So I switched to big eye hooks for the really tiny stuff and it helped me get the threaders aligned and the doubled tippet through.

Eventually, though, I just gave up on the threaders because I had lost my last one. The big eye hooks (Orvis, Daiichi, Gamakatsu to name a few) still help out a lot and though it's a bit of a struggle I can thread tippet through just fine.
 
Thanks you guys for the help.

@J Watrous if you are referring to the C and F Threaders, I see what you are saying. I got the Regular Size model and the Midge Model. I am hoping that if I use the right threader size, I wont run into the problem you describe.

On my stillwater leaders, I use Bobber Stops, to keep the indicator, at the same depth, after each fish. Using the Bobber Stops, you just slip the end of the tippet/mono through a little wire threader, almost exactly like what these C and F threaders require. Its ingenious for that application. I hope it also works as well, with the C and F Fly Threaders.


:)@krusty[/USER] I looked at that tool in your post. The problem with that tool for me, is that it wouldn't work on the smaller hook sizes. It also wouldnt work on some of the fly patterns I use. IIRC, it didnt allow me to thread the eye, if I had a bead on the head and/or used a jig style hook.

Looking at my bobbin threader today, I think this may also work to thread the eye, of larger sized hooks. I have the inexpensive wire Bobber Threader which has a little plastic ball at the end. The tip of the wire, on the bobbin threader, is configured, very similar to the C and F Fly Threaders. Later today Ill see if it can be used on larger sized flies.

Thanks again all.

Be well.

Bob
 
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A good friend told me to get a box with these before a trip to Chopaka. There was a caddis hatch right at dark that felt like you were sitting in a piranha infested lake for a bit. The problem being it was getting dim enough you couldn't thread the eye of your hook. Once threaded the knot tying is easy. For that situation these things work great. I still have them and I don't use them often, but they are handy.
 
Fourbtgait said:
Hearing of these made me curious as age brings it’s own problems stream side, diminished eyesight plus loss of fingertips.
So researching these last night, is it easier to slip the fly onto the wire initially than to slip limp mono through the hook eye?
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The way I use them, I do it at home with a good light. And yes you can see the wire better than tippet.
 
I have the black one in the pic posted by Crusty. It has never really been useful for me, but maybe I haven't given it a chance.
 
@MELinOre,

You think like me. I bought the sewing ones at our local Joannes. They broke very easily but they did work for larger flies especially.
MELinOre said:
You could be a "cheapass" like me and buy some sewing needle threaders at your local sewing store.
Or buy a package of 30 from Amazon for $3.99.
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@MELinOre ,

I tried these threaders from Joannes. They work for larger flies but break easily. I am hoping the C and F Hook Threaders are more robust. Being as how they list specific fly sizes to work with specific threaders I am thinking that the wire goes down in size for each model, allowing for the hook eye tolerances and the szie of tippet material you will be pulling through the eye.

I like the C and F "Long Shanked/Regular Sized" Hook threaders because it looks like one could slip on and store/pre-load, a few flies, as a result, of the longer shank. C and F has the short shank model also for on the water use, with a single fly. You have to specify the size you want, when ordering.

Thanks for the input.

Bob
 
Doublebluff said:
I have the black one in the pic posted by krusty. It has never really been useful for me, but maybe I haven't given it a chance.
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It's krusty..with a small 'k'. Had to do it under threat of litigation from The Simpsons. 😂 Fixed it for you!

I bought the magnetic one a couple of days ago from the local flyshop...I needed some Cactus midge chenille and tungsten beads anyway (by the way that chenille is a killer body on small wet flies with a bead head). Very productive lake fly.

I tried the magnetic threader on a whole range of hook sizes, beaded flies, and jig hooks with beads. Seemed to work just fine...the key is placing the hook eye in the proper orientation to the tippet groove. The rare earth magnet holds the fly quite securely.

Got it attached to another zinger on my PFD....on the same side my $400 Abel Grateful Dead nipper resides. 😃
 
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