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wozniasm
For trout, and fly lines 6wt or lower, floating line, split shot.
For steelhead, etc (7-9 weight single hand flyline) a sinking polyleader (a leader coated with tungsten or lead impregnated coating), 10' long or so, is useful for swinging flies. If you are indicator fishing, usually the fly has weight, or you can add split shot. To indicator fish in heavier flows a long leader works, just cast further upstream.
If you have a heavier spey setup (7-9 spey flyline), you can use much heavier sink tips (like T-8, T-14, etc), to get the 'swinging' fly down. Useful particularly for winter fishing, heavier flows.
Michael
I've always used floating line back east but seem to hear more about sinking line out here. Lots of comments using sinking line to get down into holes which makes sense.
I can see sinking line beneficial in lakes and rivers but not for creeks.
What about sinking 'tips'? is that floating line with more weight on the tip?
Opinions?:think:
Full sinker for stillwater... I would have thought full sinker would be best for rivers with fast water to get the fly down in a hurry.two different densities of sinking lines played a big roll in catcing fish
Randy