{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Floating-Intermediate LIne?

gene, I like you exact price on the fly line hahaha

On Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at 8:26:17 PM UTC-5, TurbineBlade wrote:

A full intermediate line is your favorite fly fishing line?  Oh God, that sounds so painful.  Are you from Florida?  South Carolina?  

The full intermediate may be my most hated fly line -- the damn thing doesn't float or sink.  And the "retrieve sequence" basically goes "Not sinking....not sinking, this sucks.  Okay the fly is coming back to me and it's kind of sinking a little more than the fly.....now the line is dragging the bottom, rubbing its coating off and the fly is still a few inches above bottom....but I can't feel anything because there isn't a straight line between my hand and the fly, is something biting?  Okay, now I'll roll it up and the fly is stuck on my boot.  Awesome, this was totally worth 79 bucks". 

Gene

On Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 9:05:46 AM UTC-5, John Mathews wrote:

I use all types of line but a full Int. is my all around favorite.  I've cast and fished some sink tips from a tip of a few feet to the full head of 30 feet.  You are correct that it is easier to mend  the line in a current BUT currents in the column are not even with the surface flowing faster than the current on the bottom.  The line drag can get to be beyond a mend depending on how deep you're fishing with the fly following the line by many feet.  In a situation where there is limited  or no current a sink tip works well.

On Saturday, November 14, 2015 at 10:29:55 AM UTC-5, Barracuda wrote:

Has anyone used something like Rio's Outbound intermediate line where only the head (35-40 feet) is intermediate while the running is floating line? They argue it's easier to mend and swing with the floating running line. Just curious if anyone has any experience with that, or whether the full intermediate line works better in our tidal Potomac environment.

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