It's a little bottle of love.
Your hands can get really dinged up when you’re fishing (or even worse, guiding).
Leaders and fly lines cut them up. Hooks poke them. Days with lots of rain (and/or fish releases) make them chapped and cracked. Stiff waterproof zippers, sandy anchor ropes, ratchet straps, fillet knives…yeah, your hands can get really dinged up when you’re fishing.
“Don’t turn big problems into little problems” is a rule we live by since we operate in remote areas, and that rule applies to your hands as well. Our guides know that taking good care of the little problems on their hands will prevent much bigger problems down the road.
That all leads us to New-Skin. It’s one of the best ways we’ve found to nip minor hand problems (line cuts, cracks, etc) in the bud. New-Skin Liquid Bandage
We highly recommend a bottle of New-Skin
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Great tip! Any fly tying uses for this material? I wonder how it works as field expedient repair solution for well worn flies?
Thanks JK. I’m not sure I’d want to put it on flies – the antiseptic in it gives it a pretty strong odor!
Interesting factoid. I told my mother about this product a couple of years ago and how I thought it was so innovative and therapeutic. She informed me during WWII that New Skin was actually well used by almost every serviceman. Of course, they’ve improved the product since then. But it does play to the adage that “Every thing old becomes new again…”
I’ve been using it since the 1950′s to coat duck, goose, turkey, etc wing quills to keep wings from splitting. I coat and let dry the whole quill before cutting into individual slips