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Date: April 28, 2006 at 19:03:59
From: ken, [pool-70-109-217-38.prvdri.east.verizon.net]
Subject: What can drag do to a sinking line? |
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This is part of a post from five years ago.
Sinking lines
The weight of a sinking line does not counteract current.
Current on a line is lift. It is torque on a resistant surface. The higher the speed the more lift.
If you are drifting down stream at the same speed as your line the line will sink quickly to the bottom.
Stop your movement downstream and it will plane up and move across the flow because of the width of the line resisting the water.
The surface of the water moves much faster than the deeper layers.
When you cast from a stationary position across current with a weighted fly and a quick sinking line the part of the line that is deepest is going the slowest.
The line that is between you and the deepest part is going faster because the current is faster. This causes the fly to be pulled and lifted by the faster currents toward the top of the water column.
Add to this the acceleration of the curve unfolding as it moves down against the pressure of your stationary position.
It acts much like a backcast accelerating just before it straightens out.
This is called drag and that is exactly what it does to your fly.
It lifts and drags it downstream behind the loop that the current forms in your sinking line.
Even lead core does this.
The solution to this problem is to position yourself where the cast you make can be allowed to sink straight to the fly unhindered by drag long enough to reach your target just before drag sweeps it up and away.
You can extend this productive time by feeding line into the drift and allow the fly to fish longer at depth.
There are many variations on this type of deep presentation that have been worked out over the years and are written down in many traditional fly fishing books.
If you are serious about using sinking lines effectively you must come to an understanding of what drag actually does to your line and develop skillful strategies to make it work for you. There are many ways to fish with sinking lines that have been worked out and are effective for both steelhead fishermen and salmon fishermen.
The only methods that don't work with any consistency are the ones that disregard drag entirely and depend on the sink rate of the line to be effective.
Drag is only a force when there is current.
No current, no drag and only then are the instructions on the line box helpful.
The West coast steel headers found this out the hard way.
They are about twenty years ahead of East Coast salt water fly fishermen in their methods of fishing with sinking lines in current for fish that are holding deep.
Trey Combs in his book, "The Steelhead Trout", really delves into the use of sinking lines in current and gives many formulas for splicing lines together to meet specific deep water presentation needs.
The users of sinking lines in salt water need to recognize drag as "The Force," that must be factored into sinking line presentations if they want to achieve any amount of consistant results with big fish (and small ones) that have long been hoped for.
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