Fly Lines

[Taco]

or is there? Maybe not.

 

Part 1 and Part 2

 

 

 

[ironfly]

I'm not sure if the author fishes. If so, he pays alot less attention to detail than most fly fishers I know. There are a bunch of mistakes in the line specs(I have the real ones in front of me), and there seems to be a very limited understanding of the casting properties of compound taper lines.

 

That being said, in general principle I agree. There are too many lines out there, and the ad copy does repeat itself.

 

Rick

[Taco]

I don't know man, I'm a big believer in KISS principle myself. Gimme a longer front taper DT for small dries, a shorter stubby front taper WF for big flies or heavy rigs, maybe a sinker of some type, go up or down a wt class on any given rod and I'm pretty much good to go. Less time obsessin' more time fishin'.

[ironfly]

I'm pretty much the same way. Most of my rods only have two lines, with the exception of my nine weight, which has three. All of them have only one floater, and that's usually a general purpose. Again, the nine is the exception; it has a bullet taper floater.

 

Now, if I could just apply KISS to my flies, maybe I could stop carrying around four fly boxes.

 

Rick