Some time ago a friend from the United States wrote to me asking if it would be possible to reproduce the legendary HEDGE 7 TAPER, the first known weight-forward fly line. My friend sent me a document, an advertising publication from the 1940s which reports the measurements and diameters of the famous fly line. For…

In my research on how silk fly lines were made in the past, I came across an old book written by John Harrington Keene – “Fishing Tackle, its material and manufacture” (1886). About recommended recipes for treating the raw lines that could be purchased from manufacturers of the time, in chapter III (“Running Lines and…