
October 25th, 2004, 12:48 AM
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fly line taper
Chas Wade wrote:
"Larry L" wrote:
My question, as my post season tackle check shows my lake floating
line
cracked and ready for replacement, is there a specialty taper
available that
will help in this situation?
You might consider a steelhead taper. It has a long belly, you can do
a sort of roll to lift the line, back cast, and send it wherever you
want directly. The long bellymakes it possible to do what I think the
spey guys call a snake roll with 50 feet of line out. A little
practice, and you can cast accurately 70 feet out at a 90 degree angle
to the last cast. I don't think the rod is a key here, it wortks for
me with a Sage LL 3wt, and a GLoomis GLX 6wt. In fact it works with
the 3wt line in the 6wt rod when you forget to bring the right reel.
Yeah but you can cast a kite string with a broomstick.
Willi
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