Repairing Large crack in SA Infinity fly line

[speedbird]

Wrapped my tippet around this in a bad cast, and somehow cut it trying to undo the knot. Is she done for? Would hate to need a new fly line when I’ve yet to hook a fish with this one!

 

[O' Clarkii Stomias]

Aquaseal, or weld it with a piece of shrink tube and a heat gun.

 

[flybill]

You could also glue it down.. wrap with thread or even fishing line and lightly coat it with aquaseal or epoxy..

Weld it or splice it

Or take it back to the shop and see if they can help you out... and of course, you could just buy a new line.. which I get is expensive, but still would be worth it in the long run..

 

[Buzzy]

I recently repaired one of my full sink lines after somehow burying the point of a barbless hook in the coating; somehow the hook tore the coating and exposed the core (don't ask). I hung the damaged line between two jury rigged pillars so the line was fairly taut and the damaged section at the forefront. I wrapped the damaged section back in place with 70 denier tying thread, including a few millimeters on either end of the tear. After tying off the thread and cutting the tag off I coated the thread with Knot Sense (UV) and cured it. The Knot Sense is thick enough so I could shape a taper but not so thick to make a huge bump in the line and it's holding up just fine. Good luck.

 

[SurfnFish]

the core looks fine so just needs heat shrink tubing careful heated

 

[Draketake]

Shoe goo, Aqua Seal, E6000 or any other similar silicone.

Shoe Goo-ed a brand new 3 weight, DT, Cortland Line, 20 years ago. Its still going strong. The little, curious, lovable, Kitty who started the mess,......poor gal has been gone about 10 years.

Happy Holidays.

Bob

 

[Salmo_g]

What Buzzy posted above is what has worked for me.

 

[_WW_]

Wrapped my tippet around this in a bad cast, and somehow cut it trying to undo the knot. Is she done for? Would hate to need a new fly line when I’ve yet to hook a fish with this one!
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Where in the line is it?

 

[speedbird]

Where in the line is it?

In the rear taper unfortunately

 

[_WW_]

In the rear taper unfortunately

Maybe a loop to loop is an option?

 

[speedbird]

Maybe a loop to loop is an option?

A loop to loop between the break?

I actually received this line for free when I bought my 8 weight rod and reel from my local fly shop. Kinda thinking about cutting it at the break, tying a loop, and buying a set of sink tips and making my own versitip line. I have no idea how it would change the casting though

 

[_WW_]

A loop to loop at the break if it's at a spot that is normally outside the rod tip when casting. Then you could loop on opst heads or sinking line for trolling.