"Ernie" wrote in message
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Double taper lines are suitable in all weights and for all occasions. They
roll cast, mend well and you can turn them around when you wear one end
out.
Some other type lines are a little better for distance casting.
Ernie


That's definately the traditional statement about them, but I've heard that,
in reality, DT lines are dinosaurs. Silk lines were expensive, and used to
get waterlogged, so DTs were used so you could reverse the line and have an
economical dry, waxed end. But modern lines have a different wear pattern:
the tips wear, but you can trim that part off back to the flare. The rest of
the body wears so slowly that by the time you need to reverse the line, you
probably have bought several replacements already. And all that time you
were waiting to make use of the reversibility of the line, the thick body of
the the DT line just made for more heavy line to toss around, and that
you're better off just cutting the end off your DTs for shooting heads.

Is this wrong?

--riverman