The omission of the Skagit lines probably invalidates this poll
The omission of the Skagit lines probably invalidates this poll.
A friend and new comer to the two handed rods asked his Mrs Santa Claus to buy him a Skagit 450 for Christmas. In the second week of December with my help, she placed her Skagit 450 order at the local fly shop. The line was apparently on back order until the first week of Feb..
The Outbound Floaters are being used by many of us with our lighter two handed rods. My son and DIL tried to order two of the OB floating lines for two of my rods for Christmas, and they ran into a similiar backorder problem shortly after Thanksgiving. He finally got the lines a couple of days before Christmas. The floating 10W works very well with my Sage 5120, and the floating 8W will probably never leave my Meiser 5/6 Switch rod except when I put an Outbound 8W intermediate on it for deep fishing from my boat, the shore and Shad this May/June. With these lines, I can Skagit, Double Spey, Snake Roll and overhand/head cast with minimal effort.
The OB intermediates are rocket launchers :saeek: for surf casting, shore casting at ponds/streams and the shorter two handed rods in a boat.
Since last summer, when I discovered that my floating tips could be used with my Skagit lines, I have only used the floating and sinking tips from my WC's, MS's and GS's. The rest of the lines are collecting dust along with my floating MS and Cannon lines. I doubt that I'm the only one in this situation.
