fly line taper

Willi & Sue wrote:
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.


That would be a Mike Connors trick Willi. I've never tried it, though
I do remember trying to cast without a rod once years ago. I managed
10 or 15 feet, and even got a couple strikes, but there was no way I
could set the hook without the rod to help keep the line tensioned
properly.

Chas
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