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I am eager to try fishing floating line all year round. When temperatures drops one needs to get his flies down asap and keep it there and using a combination of floating line, long, thin, and stiff flourocarbon leader paired up with a sparse heavy fly sounds very appealing to me. Most dry line fans tie their winter flies on huge iron hooks because they dont favor dumbell eyes on classical patterns. Im with you on that. After giving some thought on it I found tungsten tying thread made by Spirit River. This thread means smaller gaps and small fast sinking flies. Cant wait to try it out.
Now to my question.
As all of you know, long thin leaders and heavy flies dont complement each other in terms of casting especialy with longer belly lines. From fishing point of view long, thin leader will let the fly sink and stay deep under tention. Its a trade of any way you look at it so I wonder what is your take when it comes to line and leader choice for deep swing of the floating line and its ability to cast a weighted fly? How about level flourocarbon leader? Furled?
Now to my question.
As all of you know, long thin leaders and heavy flies dont complement each other in terms of casting especialy with longer belly lines. From fishing point of view long, thin leader will let the fly sink and stay deep under tention. Its a trade of any way you look at it so I wonder what is your take when it comes to line and leader choice for deep swing of the floating line and its ability to cast a weighted fly? How about level flourocarbon leader? Furled?