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A thirty foot piece of line weighing 200 grains can carry a very much
heavier fly that a 60 foot piece of line weighing 200 grains.

But it's not the weight of the two lines that determines that, now is it? Or
is a pound of feathers going to fall at the same rate as a pound of lead?

I know a couple of the worlds best casters. Not one of them can cast a
weighted woolly bugger sixty feet using a #3 weight line, and
regardless of the rod.

The only world class caster I know is also the chief fly line designer for
one of the big three US line makers. But I know several great fishermen who
can make that cast with the right rod and fly line.

With regard to carrying heavy flies the weight of the fly-line in use
is the only relevant factor.

No the taper and composition of the rod have a lot to do with it too.

It is quite impossible to aerialise more than the head and a few feet
of line when using either a WF or a ST. This is because the thin
running line/shooting line can not transfer energy to the heavy fly
line.

While I won't use the word impossible and as I said, it is difficult for
most anglers, my self included to have 30' of a WF line extended on a back
cast, it is not unusual to cast a distance greater than 30' on the forward
stroke.

It is not difficult of have 30+ feet of line in the air on a back cast with
DT or one of the Triangle Taper or Long Belly lines but the resistance of a
DT line will limit the distance the average caster can shoot it out. In the
modern US market, the trend has been towards faster rod actions which help
the average angler generate more line speed that one does not need 30' of
fly line.

One of my favorite rods is an older and softer action 8-1/2 5wt. My prefered
fly line is a Scientific Anglers Trout taper 5DT. Except when I am knowingly
fishing heavy streamers, I switch over to a Rio Nymph taper 5WF. I gained
25' with this fly line and those bugs. Can't tell you why scientifically but
I did. But it behaves differently with than the 9' rod of the same series
and weight. Go figure.

It's maker sold a series of sal****er rods that were meant to aerolize line
and they did it well. Their actions were and are unlike any of the rods sold
since. So to call it impossible is wrong.