Sinking lines have different sinking rates. So What sink rate is a 400 gr. sinking line?
Is it an intermediate sinking line,
one that sinks at 6" a second, a foot a second?
A whole bunch of unspecifics is not helpful to people when talking about presentattion.
That generic approach about specific presentations just adds to the confusion out there about presentation and the usefulness of sinking lines.
Vagueness is not knowledge when talking about specifics.
That used to be called ignorance.
Ignorance is not dishonest.
When it is pretending to know something that is does not know, however, it is another thing.
Some people used to call it Bulls*iting but ...
Either way, it is not helpful to people and that does not begin to address missuse of the Greased Line terminology.
Could have been a simple mistake for sure.
Swinging flies and letting them be carried downstream across the current while slipping line out is the essence of a greased line swing and it can be done with a sinking line by an expert in presentation techniques but it cannot be done with drag. Drag whips the flies, first downstream and the current pulls the line downstream before the flies and pulls them down headfirst then whips them across the current like a whip does until they are straight below you.
That is not a Greased line swing at all.
It can be done if the angler understands drag and positions himself where the current will mend his line underwater for him as he slips line into the drift. That takes real expert knowledge of current dynamics and high skill to achieve.
An expert will avoid doing it if he can. It is a real test of ones skill to do it and that is fun but ...
It is not a better presentation than doing it with mending and a floating line.
That is why the traditional presentation is called a Greased line swing. It is done with a floating line.
Fly fishing presentations are not generic. They require line handling skill and real fly fishing knowledge.
If that line about greased line swings with sinking lines in that article were published in a respected trout or salmon magazine there would be lots of letters to the editor about the terminology used the sinking rate of the line, the depth of the water referred to and teh specifics on the angle of the cst, the flow of water, the depth where the flies were fished - and even more specific questions - and -a correction and explanation printed and more likely than not - an apology from the author.
That is also a part of fly fishing tradition.
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