04-04-2009, 10:50 PM
Been awhile since I bought any flies from Orvis. They were being tied in Sri Lanka, back then, in, yes, sweat-shop conditions. But you wouldn't know that from the pricetag.
Virtually every one of those flies unraveled while casting. After the third or fourth one came apart I was starting to come apart at my own seams.
But I learned one valuable lesson: Cheap or expensive, unless you know who tied the fly, assume that it needs a drop of head cement---at a minimum---to bind everything together.
Brook
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Virtually every one of those flies unraveled while casting. After the third or fourth one came apart I was starting to come apart at my own seams.
But I learned one valuable lesson: Cheap or expensive, unless you know who tied the fly, assume that it needs a drop of head cement---at a minimum---to bind everything together.
Brook
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