Eyes Fishing

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how to melt fishing line to make fly fishing eyes

I’m assuming you mean eyestalks for crawdad, shrimp, and crab patterns. I’ve never seen anyone melt fishing line to make double eyes for minnow or nymph patterns. I suppose it could be done, but for double eyes I’d use bead chain or ready-made eyes.

Anyway, for fishing line eyestalks, start with heavy Nylon Fishing line — 10-pound mono or up, depending on how delicate you want the eyes to look. Use a candle to melt the line. Put the end of the line in the flame. It’ll melt quickly and even catch flame. Experiment a little so that the melted end balls up. These balled-up ends look okay as eyes, but if you dip the eye in a slow (thick) head cement you can get a bigger eyeball. Let it dry and dip it again for bigger eyes. You can use markers on the eye stalks and eyeball to add realism. Some fishing line will turn black or smoky gray when you burn it, which can look kind of buggy or fishy.

Now just trim the eyestalks to the desired length and tie them into your pattern.

If you’re trying to make double eyes, I guess you can try to burn both ends of the length of line you’re working with to make double eyes, but the thing is the line melts so fast and it’s hard to control. You’d end up with some double eyes that were a millimeter apart, others that were a centimeter apart, and others might burn up altogether.

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