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Post by beaudro on May 26, 2011 4:49:25 GMT -5
I have no clue where to buy braided linen fishing line , if it's being made anymore I'd like to know. Silk is great, but hard to find the real stuff , it's 200 bucks for a small roll at traditional fly fishing places. Everything else I find is synthetic , you have to be careful buying silk , if the price is reasonable the chances of it being fake are high. What I made before was a hand braided linen cord, I bought the thread from Susan Wallace, but I don't know if it even resembles the original much. I took three strands of her thread and simply braided it , about 100 feet maybe. Then on the lathe I turned a wooden spool and made a mock-up label , all because I couldn't find information to make a better one. The deal with fishing line in the early 1800's is that most of it was meant for fishing reels , they were around for sure, but they don't show up in trade lists or journals. Nathan Wyeth mentions having a "small fishing rod" stolen by indians, could be he brought a kentucky reel out west? All the lines used for fishing was high maintenance , it had to be dried out after use. I would imagine in the west it was largely handlines with whatever cordage would work. Trot lines are mentioned a few times. That might not be for the Columbian River Fish and Trading company, but Nathan was going after large numbers of fish, I'm assuming he supplied the natives with nets and traps more than hook and line.
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Post by ThunderMoon on May 26, 2011 10:30:58 GMT -5
I've never seen hooks like that,how the heck do you make those? It would blow me away to see lakes like you guys talk about,only been out of Ca. twice..Good readin man.. You guys start catchin any whales let me know...
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