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Problem |
I fished a small stream in the Dry River Valley of New Hampshire over the weekend. A brookie in every plunge pool. More on that tomorrow (or maybe the next day). I fished with no more than five feet of fly line out tip top guide. When I pulled some more line off the reel to secure the fly for a brief walk upstream the fly line snapped in two. Ten feet of weight forward fly line gathered at my feet.
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Solved |
This puzzled me for a moment until I recalled my last trip to the Housy when I was casting streamers and had a swirl of fly line at my feet in the shallow water. And I stepped on the line a bunch of times. And I must have clipped it with the metal studs on my boots. A perfection loop at the end of the fly line put me quickly back in action.
I still wear my Orvis Henry's Fork boots with felts soles when I fish the didymo infested Farmington. They're lightweight and seem grippier than the rubber/steel soles will ever be. And they never bit my fly line.
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More on this soon. |
I fished with no more than five feet of fly line out tip top guide.
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