{"id":165,"date":"2009-07-12T13:53:32","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T12:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2009-07-12T13:53:32","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T12:53:32","slug":"sinkants-and-floatants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/helpful-fishing-tips\/sinkants-and-floatants\/","title":{"rendered":"SINKANTS AND FLOATANTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong>SINKANTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is vital to continually degrease your leaders as it helps them sink. It  also helps get rid of the shine which is very important in bright conditions.  There are lots of different products and the ones containing Fullers Earth and  detergent seem to work the best.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>FLOATANTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Modern fly lines do not need floatants to float as they contain minute  bubbles in their construction.<\/p>\n<p>However when using dry flies you want your flies to float and you will need  to put a floatant on them. This is vital in streamy water. Lots of makes are  available but our favourite is Gink which lasts for ages from one small  application. Do not put too much on, however, as you will often want the fly to  sit in rather than on the surface film.<\/p>\n<p>Normally you do not grease a leader but if you want to fish a fly just sub  surface it is very useful to do so. In this case lightly grease the leader up to  the depth you want the fly to fish at. If you want to be 6&#8243; under the surface do  not grease this last bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINKANTS It is vital to continually degrease your leaders as it helps them sink. It also helps get rid of the shine which is very important in bright conditions. There are lots of different products and the ones containing Fullers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/helpful-fishing-tips\/sinkants-and-floatants\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}