On Feb 9, 9:47 am, "Tom Nakashima" wrote:

I'm going to look at some sink-tip lines, try to see if I could find a used
one on a reel that I could try out. I'm sure I could get a good feel of the
line once I cast it.

Maybe (well, surely) I am a bad caster, but IMO it's impossible to get
a "good
feel" of a sink tip line. They necessarily have a hinge effect because
of the weight
distribution, and it'll be nothing like casting a regular line. I
suppose guys who
can cast shooting heads would be good at it, and the times I've felt
moderately
competent when casting mine was when I was aerializing not much line,
and
shooting the floating portion. I think that was with a long (12-13')
extra sink
tip, so the effect maybe was more pronounced.

I have since aquired a full sinking line, and haven't used the sink
tip since. Before
getting the sinking line, I did cut half the long sink tip off (and
put loop ends on
it so I could reattach it), and the short sink tip did come in handy,
and was
manageable. I like swinging streamers in a river and the short tip
could get
flies down, and I could mend and work the floating section to swing
through
smaller pockets that a full sink line would have been hard to do with.

Jon.