"Tom Nakashima" wrote in message
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The article is drifting for steelhead in rivers.
For chucking large weighted flies, the anglers makes his own
leaders and starts with a 30" piece of 40 lb test butt section, jointed
with the now taperless line by nailknot. He then adds a 12" piece of 20
lb. connected with a double uni-knot. Then bloodknots on his long 10 lb.
tippet/tippets depending on the fly or flies used, and adds splits
accordingly.

Said chucking large heavy flies is a lot easier as well as putting in
a cast mend.

It's an interesting technique, and something I would like to experiment

In my own WTF way, that's what I referenced with Great Lakes Steelheading.
Only people don't remove the taper on the fly line they typically use a
level (no taper- my bad) or running line and it's probably why the author
mentioned a DT. One could cut the taper off the front of the WF line and
achieve the same effect as long as he/she didn't cast much over 30' of line
and the really thin running line would come into play. Cortland among others
still offers at least one level line.

Technically it may be fly fishing but IMO you're no longer dependent upon
the line to deliver the fly but one is using the weight of the shot and the
fly to propel the fly to the target like one would with a spinning reel.
Without having to fight the properties of the tapered fly line the delivery
of the hardware is easier. In the great lakes tribs many people make
"slinkys" which are just bags of leaded shot. The things are a PITA to cast,
if that's the term one wants to use, with a normal fly line