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Date: July 16, 2006 at 19:34:59
From: canalyaker, [user-0c2i755.cable.earthlink.net]
Subject: Sinking Lines- a beginner's note


My first flyline was a sinking line. It was sold to me to compliment the extra fast rod that I was sold at the time. I knew right away that I did not particularly like casting or fishing the thing and I did not even know that Stripermoon existed or that I needed a flyfishing book. I never needed a fishing book before. I had many years experience with conventional and spinning reels and could do just about anything with them from salt to fresh. Some of the methods I used were difficult to learn such as skipping unweighted sluggos under docks with a conventional and using conventionals at the canal that had no levelwind so this fly rod thing was not going to beat me. I had decided to flyfish because I wanted a technique to downsize for the days when I did not want to flail away with 30# Big Game or use the lighter spinning tackle. Something different, such as a Bass fisherman fishing for Crappie once in awhile.

Three things bothered me with the sinker. One was the irritating "suction cup" effect when you had to roll the line to the surface prior to the cast. I had fished many a deep diving crankbait and retrieved a jig through many a rip at the canal and I did not need to deal with any more suction in my fishing. The other thing was the hinging effect and the shock to the rod. Just didn’t seem right for a beginning. The third was that if this was going to be “fun” and knowing that fish will come up for a lure just under the surface (especially long and thin ones) there had to be another way and if I wanted to fish down deep I was lucky enough to have other ways. I literally cut most of the head off trying to fulfill my needs!

So I bought a floating line and it is the best thing I ever did. If I hadn’t I would not be flyfishing today. Then I bought a slower action rod. I own, cast, and use every conceivable line & rod today and I have to credit it to that first floater. There is no question in my mind that a floater is the way to start flyfishing the salt if you want to keep flyfishing the salt. In fact, you may just use one line the rest of your life.


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