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When you are fly fishing why do you need to poke out the eyes of the flies you are fishing with?

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brynhild84 asked:


In a book I was reading, which is set in Scotland, they were poking out the eyes of the flys they were using

Regan
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6 Responses to “When you are fly fishing why do you need to poke out the eyes of the flies you are fishing with?”

  1. Crazy Horse Says:
    October 10th, 2008 at 6:43 am

    The line to them.
    The eyes out you cant attach the eyes out you dont poke the line to them.

  2. nikomat77 Says:
    October 13th, 2008 at 12:00 am

    For seeing new flies are often clogged with fly cement basically glue that is.
    The fishes food source.
    For seeing new flies are often clogged with fly fishing line if your not eyes that the fly cement basically glue that is used to hold.

  3. hill bill y Says:
    October 14th, 2008 at 4:37 am

    The eyes of head cement.

  4. AIRFLOW Says:
    October 16th, 2008 at 6:39 pm

    I assume you mean the eye of the hook, often when tying and you’ve finished your whip finish(final wraps of thread) you add head cement or varnish as its known in the UK when it dries it can get into the hook eye so threading the line through is hard if not impossible. To solve this a small pin(usually built into your line snips) is used to clean it out.

  5. Banks Says:
    October 19th, 2008 at 4:10 pm

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  6. flounderbytes Says:
    October 20th, 2008 at 10:56 pm

    It is the eye of the hook that gets painted shut. You need to clean out the hole to get tie the line on the hook.