The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

Trouttickler wrote:
We made our own dry fly floatant with parafin and carbon tetrachloride. No bottle would hold this stuff without leaking. Always had a crust of wax around the pocket that held that bottle!
Got to admit, the technology has come a long, long way!

My uncle used floatant made from white gas, carbo tet, and parafin...in a double boiler, on an electric hot plate on the patio. I still make the stuff using Coleman Fuel, Parafin and T-1-1 Triclorethane...Mrs pgw and the neighbors believe that I'm gonna blow up the block when I make a batch (about a pint and that lasts for 2-3 years) and some of the guys I fish with expect to hear an explosion on the stream when I'm smoking a cigar and dipping my dry fly in the bottle of this stuff!

Paul