Hello All.I am always looking for the holly grail of fly floatants. I do a lot of skated fly presentation in the summer evenings & go through loads of fumed silica.This ancient Bergman formula should help floating them high.I used a paraffin wax & panel wipe mixture.The panel wipe evaporated almost instantly & the fly doesn't seem to leave a slick.Looks better than any commercial floatant i have ever bought.
(http://i800.photobucket.com/albums/yy285/Rabmax1/2b919a41-a757-4438-8793-9b99435efc8c.jpg) (http://s800.photobucket.com/user/Rabmax1/media/2b919a41-a757-4438-8793-9b99435efc8c.jpg.html)
It can even float a bare hook.(looks interesting) :D
what is the formula? :?
Sure it is mentioned in his book Trout. A google search should throw up something. This kind of thing has been around for ages. Sorry homemade floatants.
Tight Lines
Quote from: loch coulter on May 12, 2014, 06:45:40 PM
what is the formula? :?
Basically you mix lighter fuel with paraffin wax for candle making.(about 8 parts fuel to 1 or 2 parts wax) I have used panel degreaser as its clear without various additives that's in Colemans fuel ect. I tried panel degreaser with red mucilin first & it's good but the candle wax looks better.When you blow on the fly the fuel is more or less gone.I am not that worried about bursting into flames as i don't smoke either.Cheers All
This guy done a test against other floatants.
http://www.drlogik.com/flyfloatants.html (http://www.drlogik.com/flyfloatants.html)
I think i can believe his findings.Cheers All