netboy Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 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) tjm and dpitt 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BilletHead Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 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. dpitt 1 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BilletHead Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 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. netboy, Quillback and Ham 3 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpitt Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 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. snagged in outlet 3, nomolites, Ham and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ham Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 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. dpitt, Flysmallie and nomolites 3 Every Saint has a past, every Sinner has a future. On Instagram @hamneedstofish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishinwrench Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 The very last place I will skimp when I go broke....is my flylines. I'd go to cheap cheesy tippet material first. Ryan Miloshewski 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjm Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Adams Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 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. netboy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjm Posted August 25 Share Posted August 25 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? netboy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ham Posted August 25 Share Posted August 25 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, tjm and BilletHead 1 1 Every Saint has a past, every Sinner has a future. On Instagram @hamneedstofish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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