Hmm. I'm just about to retire an old dry line, so I'll give this a try.
thanks.

"Larry L" wrote in message
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"Bob" wrote in

Has anyone tried a line called a Hover line?

Bob, as a direct answer ....no

but,
this is a second post on superslow sinking lines,
so,
let me add that my reply to the first one was only slightly silly. For
a number of years I spent about two weeks each late May/ early June, at
the damsel hatch on Davis Lake in California. Fish can be taken at
varied levels in the water column, but many of the damsel nymphs migrate
to shore a few inches below the surface and fish taking them provide a
spectacular show that makes one want to catch them at that level, in
particular.
Thus,
I spent a lot of hours trying to figure out how to present a fly in that
upper foot of the water, over a long retrieve.
For me,
the solution turned out to be an old beat up dry line and flies on light
hooks but entirely tied from marabou to produce a near neutral buoyancy
( man I would have had to find a different word without spell check, I
wasn't even close :-). Yucky, over priced, never breaks down,
environmentally unfriendly, fluorocarbon tippet material can help a little
too, but I got by just fine by rubbing the tippet with slime and mud to
break the film and sink it a bit to avoid the fish scaring light streaks
on the surface that I bet have you on this search.

A beat up ( lots of cracks is good :-) dry line will not cast real well,
but combined with the right fly and leader modifications it will provide a
just under the surface stillwater retrieve. I moved on to spending the
same time period in Jellystone before I tried it, but I always meant to
make a shooting head out of a beat up dry line and probably greatly
increase casting distance possible.