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Early fly fishermen used lines of twisted and braided horse hair and Dame Berners gives explicit directions for selecting, coloring and making a line of this material. Later silk was mixed with hair to reduce its roughness. Finally, when manufacturers learned to braid silk by machinery, hair was eliminated entirely as a line material. I have one of these old braided hair lines, and although of too large diameter to render through the guides of a modern rod, I tried it once and satisfied myself that one can cast with it — I prefer the modern lines.
Related terms include flies for fishing and fly fishing photo.
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