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I would like to share some of my experiences modifying Rio Fly Lines for underhand casting. As I fish a lot of medium-sized rivers where distance casts are not at a premium and the water can be fairly complex, I wanted to see if I could recycle my faithful WindCutter Spey for underhand casting.
First, I removed the two floating sections from a factory Rio WindCutter Interchangeable Tip Spey Line (Rio calls them Tip #1 and Tip #2), and attached a Rio 15' sink tip to the remaining loop in the line. This set-up creates a 37' shooting head (22' of floating belly + 15' of sink tip) that closely mirrors the specifications given by Per Stadigh under a separate thread ("Making Shooting Heads").
Second, in order to load the rods with this new configuration, I jumped two Rio line sizes above what I would normally use: in this case, a WindCutter 9-10-11 (minus Tip #1 and Tip #2) for an 8126-3 and a WindCutter 10-11-12 (minus Tip #1 and Tip #2) for a Thomas & Thomas 1409-3. Used in combination with a 15' sink tip, both Rio shooting head set-ups work exceptionally well for these rods and my style of casting.
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First, I removed the two floating sections from a factory Rio WindCutter Interchangeable Tip Spey Line (Rio calls them Tip #1 and Tip #2), and attached a Rio 15' sink tip to the remaining loop in the line. This set-up creates a 37' shooting head (22' of floating belly + 15' of sink tip) that closely mirrors the specifications given by Per Stadigh under a separate thread ("Making Shooting Heads").
Second, in order to load the rods with this new configuration, I jumped two Rio line sizes above what I would normally use: in this case, a WindCutter 9-10-11 (minus Tip #1 and Tip #2) for an 8126-3 and a WindCutter 10-11-12 (minus Tip #1 and Tip #2) for a Thomas & Thomas 1409-3. Used in combination with a 15' sink tip, both Rio shooting head set-ups work exceptionally well for these rods and my style of casting.
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