An interesting thing about Gink and floatants on your leader. They work good at first. But then after a while they will attract the micro-dirt and scum in the water and will cause your leader to break through the surface film quicker. So keep on them, wiping them clean, and re-applying.DaveNJ wrote:Use a Gink type solution to grease your tippet.Bill Moschler wrote:I never seem to have the choice of sinking or floating tippet. I am working hard just to keep the fly floating. Beyond that, if the fly is drifting well, I do not pay much attention. I use Rio leaders and a piece of Rio tippet. Not flurocarbon for drys.
I am not a dry or die, but dry is now I fish most of the time. Anything else is too hard.
Try a squeaky clean brand new mono leader and tippet and watch how well they float without any floatant on them (providing you've straightened all the coils out).
Same thing happens to your floating flyline tip. It starts to sink, so you gink it up, and it works again for a bit, but then sinks after awhile. Try scouring it clean and it will float again (unless it's a cracked line, or has water in the hollow core, or it's just a crappy floater).
If you're bored during quarantini time at night, set up a glass of water next to your cocktail and mess around with some little chunks of mono and flouro, and greased up, etc. Mono really hangs in the surface film really well. Then poke at the pieces and see what it takes to sink them.
It's quite revealing.
Don't mix up your drinks. I need to put on my mask and go buy some more gin.