Choosing a spey fly line is prooving more difficult than I imagined and
experts's opinion seem to vary dramatically, contradicting eachother to the
point that the average punter is confused.

On the one end, you have a respected and vastly experienced Scottish casting
instructor stating in his very good website review of speylines that he
favours a traditionnal DT profile for the bulk of his fishing whilst
prefering modified Wf profiles for pure distance....and on the other hand ,
tackle shops and other APGAI instructors who really only promote WF profiles
and when questionned reply that they hate DT lines.



I started with a Rio Windcutter and now wish to move to the next step, now
that I have acquired the basics. The Rio midspey is the logical choice but I
am overall very confused and at a loss when choosing. Trying with the rod is
best but nowhere can one actually try everything and anything.., especially
not a traditionnal DT 10!

My dilemma is that I feel I know need a longer head ( I have reached maximum
distance with my current line and want to do a bit less spaguetti retrieving
before casting again) but also hate -when fishing smallish streams - to be
disabled because the rod does not really load until most of the head is out
of the top ring.

A 70 feet head is probably the maximum I want to go to as really long belly
lines seem to be for the very proficient caster and adapted only to very
large rivers whilst I fish only medium to large rivers.



In summary, I could do with views of real salmon anglers rather than expert
casters, people who have can testify of their practical experience rather
than loose me in theoritical debates.



Considered spey lines a

Cortland or SA Ultra DT

Cortland Spey tri colour

Mastery series SA Spey

Rio Mid Spey

Lee Wulf TT 70feet

any views on Hardy Mach and Snowbee?



Many thanks in advance

The Leaping Frog