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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.


Thanks Jon,
very useful information. I've been doing quite a bit of research on
manufactures of line testing on sink-tip lines and after reading reports
I'll probably go with a Scientific Anglers Mastery sink-tip line. From
the info I've gathered, the SA lines seem to cast the best and as far as the
sink part (once they hit water), they're all about the same. The other
important note, the type I through III really don't do much, and the type
IV was rated outstanding, but the typeV is the rate that I want, roughly
6.5" ips. for my needs on the river.
fwiw,
-tom