My tenkara kit is lightweight. Like superlightweight, yet in the crazy obsession that many of you share, I am still trying to shave weight. I have come to the conclusion that my floatation is the weakest link in the further lightening of my kit. Typically here in the southeast I go through one whole bottle of floatant in an entire year of flyfishing…. yet I carry a full bottle in my kit that gets used a fraction of one percent of my time flyfishing. Â The floatant weighs 22 grams, in perspective, my fly box full of flies only weighs 27. Do you guys try to further par down your floatant into a micro bottle? I have tried to completely eliminate the use of floatant through the use of a hydrophobic pretreatment for my flies (water shed) but it has not seemed to work (if you guys have any tips on how to use it let me know). I was hoping the water shed would be the answer to my prayers, but I am still in search of a way to escape the weight, and more importantly the mess that floatation poses to my tenkara kit…..
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
