Fly Line selection

[netboy]

Interesting post from Davy Wooton on missing hits on stripping flies on a tightline. He suggested to hold the rod higher on the retrieve and use a softer action rod to give a little cushion when they strike. That has helped my strike to hookup ratio. The guy that started the thread suggested using a shock gum segment to further lessen the time between the take and the hookset. 

Someone please explain... - Fly Fishing Arkansas and Missouri (tapatalk.com)

[BilletHead]

1 hour ago, netboy said:

Interesting post from Davy Wooton on missing hits on stripping flies on a tightline. He suggested to hold the rod higher on the retrieve and use a softer action rod to give a little cushion when they strike. That has helped my strike to hookup ratio. The guy that started the thread suggested using a shock gum segment to further lessen the time between the take and the hookset. 

Someone please explain... - Fly Fishing Arkansas and Missouri (tapatalk.com)

  I believe this for sure if you use too light of tippet for trout. It doesn't stop me from pointing directly at where the line is in the water. Go with bigger tippet. 

[BilletHead]

32 minutes ago, netboy said:

Well get the $3.39 version. Trust me they work great.

      I think @Devan S. Was talking about bigger game. You won't see me using $ 3.39 fly line for big game. 

[dpitt]

I chase Hybrids a lot with an 8 weight using full sinking line SA Titan 3/5/7 ips, but I'm fishing offshore humps and channels, I'll bang the banks with 24ft sink tip 350grain RIO/SA.   The sink tip will also work very well for banking 6-8 inch streamers at the banks out of a boat at Taney or the White, but also wading and swinging a tiger tail or leach.  

[Ham]

I understand the desire to lower your cost for gear, but I refuse to buy Temu stuff and the incredibly cheap knock offs. 
If you do not reward innovators, you will have less innovation. 

 

[fishinwrench]

The very last place I will skimp when I go broke....is my flylines. 

I'd go to cheap cheesy tippet material first. 

[tjm]

Yep, the innovators;  Cortland put plastic around the braid in 1953 and not long after Leon Martuch of SA figured out how to build the taper into the plastic instead of the braid. And everyone else is knocking that off. The last real innovation in fly line was probably when someone married the shooting line to the shooting taper ("shooting head" was copyrighted to Sunset Line and Twine) to create what is now called a weight forward. A smaller innovation   came with building lubricants into the plastic coating.  Sometime in the 1970s?

The particular plastic formulas with the secret sauce lubricants is about the only thing that any of the line manufacturers claim as being unique to their companies. It's probably a bigger and more useful innovation to produce any product at 10%-15% of what others are doing.

 It's kinda like saying that shoes are copied, at  this point in history all the innovations are old and well known by all the shoemakers.

 

[Nick Adams]

On 8/23/2024 at 3:07 PM, netboy said:

$3.39

I thought that was a typo. Based on your pix, they obviously work very well.

[tjm]

The China fly lines that I bought as an experiment were quite surprising and so far show no more wear after a couple years than expected. I did buy the $6.50 line rather than the $3.39 version, so maybe I have the "premium" China lines. However, mine cast as well as I do, have less stretch than the USA lines I own, and seem to have just as high breaking strength. My only objection to these lines after using them is political. And politics is a big objection and I think a valid one, but as long as we trade with communists as a nation, my views mean nothing.  

I do want to one day watch as a flyline (or any line) gets stretched while hooked to nothing but water. 26% wow

Do those big game fish break fly lines as a rule? is that why only premium lines are used?

[Ham]

4 hours ago, tjm said:

Do those big game fish break fly lines as a rule? is that why only premium lines are used?

I thought he was talking more about delivering large flys,