I've been trying to figure out how to fish some waist to chest deep very
fast water near here. Thus far my most heavily weighted efforts have
clearly zipped downstream well over any fish and/ or in a manner that
allowed no contact with the fly to sense strikes.


Last night I woke up at about 3:00AM thinking about sinking lines.

I've used them for years in stillwaters but never in moving waters.

So, my question, before I trundle off, at some risk to life and limb, to try
it. Does "swinging" a fly on a HiSpeedHID ... down and across ... have
hidden inherent problems that I'm not visualizing having never tried it?
Turning around and facing the other direction, does the 'Brook's method' of
high sticking with a sinking line have any advantage over lobbing a ton of
lead and fuzzy bobber .. ah, I mean, casting large quanities of non-toxic
shot and a strike indicator ... in water where getting anywhere near the
bottom is the first big challenge?