Saturday, October 20, 2007

Wax those Ferrules!

Your rod tip may fly off during casting if you don't!

I have had this happen to me twice before I read about waxing ferrules.
Reasons to wax the ferrules:
  • Tip may fly off and get lost in the water depending on fly size on end of tippet!
  • Rod pieces may get stuck together (requiring gorilla strength pulling to get apart)
  • Loose ferrules can cause the tip over butt sleeve to break and crack. Because if the ferrule loosens and slides up the rod there is now a gap which when casting clicks and can snap or crack the ferrule!
Waxes that work for this are numerous, and range from candle wax to commercial ferrule wax, to a product I have heard good things about which is U-40 ferrule lube.

Note: If you have a bamboo rod and are currently wiping nose oil on the ferrules...don't do it anymore. I read that it causes corrosion!

So there you have it, Please save yourself some grief and wax your ferrules!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Chris said...

Thank you! I have not posted to this blog in ages, as I have not been fly fishing in ages! By ages, I mean merely a year or so. But still it feels like forever.

Anonymous said...

excellent points and the details are more precise than somewhere else, thanks.

- Thomas

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