What's in your vise?

Zak said:
Hmm, I use Blistex on my lips. I wonder if that would attract or repel trout??
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When I saw @kmudgn's post I wondered about "scent" but dismissed it until your post about Blistex. I have no personal experience using any kind of lip balm as tying wax, fly floatant, line dressing..... but anecdotally a friend of my was drifting a river well known to him. He'd rubbed Carmex onto his lips and then handled his steelhead diving plug. He had caught several fish earlier but the bite went off on that rod while his buddy continued to have action on the "non Carmex" plug. Gerald figured he transferred scent to the plug.

Gerald is an excellent gear angler and is very familiar with the river he was fishing (and it was loaded with fish). I now question his theory after watching a guide last summer dress assorted baits as we anchored up fishing for sturgeon. Then there's the group that says WD-40 is great for spraying on lures. Huh? or is it Huh!
 
Muddled CdC & Elk Spruce Moth

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hook - WFC Model 3 #12
thread - SemperFli 8/0 tan
body - CdC tan
shoulder - sharptail grouse
collar/head - elk hair bleached

Regards,
Scott
 
A very, very, very long time ago, I was fishing 3 Dollar Bridge on the Madison and dropped my fly floatant in the river and it was gone. This was a bad deal because the Madison is fairly fast at 3 Dollar Bridge so small caddis dry fly patterns sink quickly without floatant. I remembered my wife always had some manner of lip gloss with her so I asked if I could use her lip gloss. If she would have known what I planned it is unlikely she would have given it up.

She gave me her tube of strawberry lip gloss and I applied it to the pattern. It worked like a charm ... maybe even better then the floatant I'd lost. It kept the fly floating and caught a number of nice browns. Saved the day for dry fly fishing.

So yes. Strawberry flavored lip gloss will work as fly floatant. .... my wife didn't ask for the tube back when she saw what I was using it for.
 
Wayne Kohan said:
Went out today. There's some of that solid water between the fish and the air. Ended up hiking 7 miles instead of fishing. I think no chance of dry fly action for the rest of the month.
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The warm water ditch east of Ephrata? (Oops, I almost hotspotted a very secret place.)
 
Buzzy said:
When I saw @kmudgn's post I wondered about "scent" but dismissed it until your post about Blistex. I have no personal experience using any kind of lip balm as tying wax, fly floatant, line dressing..... but anecdotally a friend of my was drifting a river well known to him. He'd rubbed Carmex onto his lips and then handled his steelhead diving plug. He had caught several fish earlier but the bite went off on that rod while his buddy continued to have action on the "non Carmex" plug. Gerald figured he transferred scent to the plug.

Gerald is an excellent gear angler and is very familiar with the river he was fishing (and it was loaded with fish). I now question his theory after watching a guide last summer dress assorted baits as we anchored up fishing for sturgeon. Then there's the group that says WD-40 is great for spraying on lures. Huh? or is it Huh!
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Water displacement 40th try has some fish oil in the recipe, I can confirm it does work for catfish.
 

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