Fly line recommendations 5-6 WT FLOAT

With the myriad of fly lines on the market today, would anyone care to
suggest a few?

Looking for 5-6 wt., floating, dt or wf for trout in streams.

Price $70

Thanks much...

Will Kemppainen wrote:
With the myriad of fly lines on the market today, would anyone care to
suggest a few?

Looking for 5-6 wt., floating, dt or wf for trout in streams.

Price $70

Thanks much...

Cortland 444 Peach, DT.

You'll cast as well as with any other line, catch fish if you've got it
in you, display a becoming frugality, and look elegant in the process.

- JR

JR wrote:
Will Kemppainen wrote:
With the myriad of fly lines on the market today, would anyone care to
suggest a few?

Looking for 5-6 wt., floating, dt or wf for trout in streams.

Price $70

Thanks much...

Cortland 444 Peach, DT. ...

Ditto.

--
Ken Fortenberry

"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
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JR wrote:
Will Kemppainen wrote:
With the myriad of fly lines on the market today, would anyone care to
suggest a few?

Looking for 5-6 wt., floating, dt or wf for trout in streams.

Price $70

Thanks much...

Cortland 444 Peach, DT. ...

Ditto.

--
Ken Fortenberry


Bought the 444 Peach today and caught 5 brook trout tonight, so, it works!

Thanks for suggesting it.

Will Kemppainen wrote:
"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
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JR wrote:

Will Kemppainen wrote:

With the myriad of fly lines on the market today, would anyone care to
suggest a few?

Looking for 5-6 wt., floating, dt or wf for trout in streams.

Price $70

Thanks much...

Cortland 444 Peach, DT. ...

Ditto.

--
Ken Fortenberry



Bought the 444 Peach today and caught 5 brook trout tonight, so, it works!

Thanks for suggesting it.

Cortland is now up to 555. I'm wondering what their next generation line
will be called. Surely not 666? They can't do that, can they? Will they
jump to 777, sort of like having no 13th floor on a skyscraper? But what
happens down the road, when they reach 999? What's next? 101010? Absurd.

I think they started this naming convention at 333. I hope the marketing
genius who thought this up has retired by now, for his sake.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

"Will Kemppainen" wk @ ooloo.com wrote in message
...
With the myriad of fly lines on the market today, would anyone care to
suggest a few?

Looking for 5-6 wt., floating, dt or wf for trout in streams.

Now-a-days it often depends on the rod.

The boys in love with the cortland 444 series neglect to mention there are
several different types of 444 lines being offered. Cortland now calls the
*regular* 444 line the 444 Classic.

For medium and slower action rods, I like the SA Trout or RIO selective
Trout lines, usually in a DT. For really slow stuff I've been using the
Cortland Sylk. For the new fast action wonder sticks, look at one of the
slick coated WF lines that are a little heavier than the standard AFTMA like
the Cortland 444 Precision taper or SA XPS lines. But, I just put a RIO
nymph WF line on a BIIx and I wonder why I didn't try it sooner. Lastly a
versitile fly line that seems to do well on several different rod actions is
the Wulff triangle taper series. All of these are under $70.00

Wayne Knight wrote:

Now-a-days it often depends on the rod.

The boys in love with the cortland 444 series neglect to mention there are
several different types of 444 lines being offered. Cortland now calls the
*regular* 444 line the 444 Classic.

Classic shmassic. You know anyone who says he drinks "classic Coke"
anymore?

"Peach" says it all. A "444 series" is marketing malarkey, built on a
recognized "brand" and intended to flimflam the impressionable rube and
the überconsumer (uh, present company excluded, of course g).

For medium and slower action rods, I like the SA Trout or RIO selective
Trout lines, usually in a DT. For really slow stuff I've been using the
Cortland Sylk. For the new fast action wonder sticks, look at one of the
slick coated WF lines that are a little heavier than the standard AFTMA like
the Cortland 444 Precision taper or SA XPS lines. But, I just put a RIO
nymph WF line on a BIIx and I wonder why I didn't try it sooner. Lastly a
versitile fly line that seems to do well on several different rod actions is
the Wulff triangle taper series. All of these are under $70.00

And all are superfluous fluff.

- JR

Wayne Knight wrote:
.... For the new fast action wonder sticks, look at one of the
slick coated WF lines that are a little heavier than the standard AFTMA like
the Cortland 444 Precision taper or SA XPS lines.

I failed to mention in my previous response that this is perhaps the
most inspired bit of FFing marketing malarkey of all....

"...And now that you are no longer a poor rank beginner, or even one of
the common mass of *ordinary* fly fishers, you're ready to *move up* to
one of our fast fast fast action rods, rods geared to the most expert of
experts!! insert testimonials from the usual professional FFing shills
here And to go with one of these marvels of the modern rod-builder's
art, you should *move up* to a special line as well, one made especially
a little heavier than *ordinary* lines, a line that can properly load
the new generation of fast fast fast super rods!!!"

Sotto voce: ["Of course since the object is to make your fast fast fast
rod cast like the medium-fast rod you'd be better off with anyway, you
*could* just put an ordinary one-weight-heavier line you already have on
it, but how'd we make any money that way......?"]

and

JR

"JR" wrote in message ...

"...And now that you are no longer a poor rank beginner, or even one of
the common mass of *ordinary* fly fishers, you're ready to *move up* to
one of our fast fast fast action rods, rods geared to the most expert of
experts!!

Guess I'll never be an expert, I like them LL's and Winston IM6's.

Don't care for the 444 peach tho, don't seem to last as long.

PS. as soon as I can get to post office, the book is on the way.

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:56:41 -0400, "Wayne Knight"
wrote:


"JR" wrote in message ...

"...And now that you are no longer a poor rank beginner, or even one of
the common mass of *ordinary* fly fishers, you're ready to *move up* to
one of our fast fast fast action rods, rods geared to the most expert of
experts!!

Guess I'll never be an expert, I like them LL's and Winston IM6's.

Don't care for the 444 peach tho, don't seem to last as long.

PS. as soon as I can get to post office, the book is on the way.

I still like the 444 peach in a double taper for my 5 weights on down to the
twos. They do develop the tell-tale line cracks in the taper at modest age,
but by flipping them around they can go three or four seasons.

Otherwise, I use the green 444SL for my 5 weights through the 10 (yes, extra
spools for the fives) in whatever WF configuration the LFS happens to have in
the line weight I need, typically a rocket taper. They last longer than the
classic 444, shoot further, carry a heavier payload (I think the SLs are
heavier, line size for line size, than the classic).

I tried the olive green 555 with the mono core in a weight forward for a
couple of seasons. It's a shooters dream, but I grew tired of having to
stretch all the kinks out every time I used it. Finally broke it last week,
about forty feet into the running line.

And I broke the business end off an Orvis monocore Wonderline on a permit this
spring that wandered into my bonefishing. So it's back to trusty dacron cores
for me. I'll give up the shootability for ease of use and durability...

/daytripper