12-15-2005, 02:50 PM
Yup. That's the best way to stretch any line.[cool]
By the way - I stretch the clear intermediate lines. I am much more reluctant to stretch a regular colored fly line for fear that I will crack the coating on the outside. I have no scientific evidence that this can happen but it does seem likely that it could. If I do stretch a regular line I do it very gently, assuming that obviously something manufactured to pull in a heavy fish must have some elasticity built into it, but perhaps not enough for more energetic stretching.
z~
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The irony of my experience is that the line becomes most pleasurable to use after a fish has given it some good yanks and stretched it naturally... [/reply]
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By the way - I stretch the clear intermediate lines. I am much more reluctant to stretch a regular colored fly line for fear that I will crack the coating on the outside. I have no scientific evidence that this can happen but it does seem likely that it could. If I do stretch a regular line I do it very gently, assuming that obviously something manufactured to pull in a heavy fish must have some elasticity built into it, but perhaps not enough for more energetic stretching.
z~
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The irony of my experience is that the line becomes most pleasurable to use after a fish has given it some good yanks and stretched it naturally... [/reply]
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