monoMASTER

www.monomaster.com 

Ever heard of the monoMASTER? Since the beginning, we've been giving some away at the Guys, Flies & Pies event. Grasshopper Outdoors has designed this great tool to help manage waste mono. You know, the stuff that ends up in your pockets, waders, or tangled around your boots?  Now there's a way to easily pack it out when you leave the stream!

How it works: Simply take the mono you don't care about any more and place it in the slot, then twist the post and it winds up INSIDE the container. Once you are back home, you open the container and run a pair of scissors up the groove and the mono comes off and into your garbage can. Simple as that.

Grasshopper Outdoors offers a few more products too. They have hats, zingers, and furled leaders.

Thanks again to Grasshopper Outdoors for supporting our event!!!  Now, if they'd just make a 3 foot long deskMASTER that will clean off my tying desk!

Check them out at www.monomaster.com

Untangling the Mess

Midcurrent has a nice article explaining a few ways to help untangle knots in your leader. Make sure to read the user comments too because there are some great ideas in there too.

One user asks about ideas for undoing knots in braided and furled leaders. I've never owned a braided, but I have been using furled for many years.  I have found MONO furled leaders to be simple to untangle, but always thought that THREAD furled leaders are sometimes more difficult. Of course, some of this depends on the location of the knot. With both mono and thread, furled or not, the thicker section of the leader is easier to undo than the thinnest portion of it. A friend of mine recently said that with a thread furled leader of mine that I furled for him, he didn't have any issue untangling it.

If for nothing else, I like furled because they have virtually no memory (even after years of being rolled up) and I can furl them up at home when needed.  I hope to be furling some up in the next few months to have for sale at Guys, Flies & Pies on February 12th 2011.  If you are interested in buying one before then, let me know and I'll see about getting some before then.