The WindCutter is passé, technologically outmoded and in dire need of improvement. Let’s count the ways WindCutter Interchangeable Tips Spey Lines are obsolete.
A. The WindCutter is an excellent line for learning Spey casting.
B. The WC is an excellent line for long-distance Spey casting.
C. The WC is excellent for fishing, floating line or sink tip, small river or large.
D. The WC is an excellent line for overhead casting. One converts a WC Spey line to an overhead casting line by removing tip2 and casting with the body and tip1. Rio could sell more lines by making the WC less versatile. Less versatility for more sales certainly is a more modern marketing package than the present WC system.
E. The WC system includes only a body section, two tip2 sections, five tip1 sections and a storage wallet.
F. The five tip-1 sections provide performance from floating to intermediate, type 3, type 6 and type 8 sink. Too many choices.
G. The sink tips are density compensated. Ho hum.
H. The type 8 tip is certainly obsolete, it being more than a year since its introduction.
I. The two tip2 sections include the standard floater and an obsolete Compensator. The Compensator’s old age is the reason the line is colored gray—so fishermen won’t forget what a technically obsolete concept it is. This outdated tip2 allows a fisherman to fish a type 3, 6 or 8 at greater depths than with the floating tip2. It is the same concept as a dual front sprocket on a derailleur equipped bicycle. Or a high/low range selector in a truck or 4-wheel drive rig. Yeah, it’s old stuff.
J. The WC three-part system allows one to cast 300, 400, 500 grain “Big Boy” 24-foot sink tips by replacing tip2 and tip1 with the 24-foot tip. It makes one wonder why the obsolete WindCutters are capable of this. Again the outmoded concepts of solid engineering, field testing and doing it right the first time intrude.
K. In 2003 the WC head to running line joint was identified by a color change. Having an easily identified location in the line to place near the tiptop for normal casting is old fashioned.
L. Those that do not prefer the WC design concept of relatively heavier body with relatively lighter tip can turn the tip1 backward and have it the other way.
M. If you want a Skagit line [short head] eliminate tip2. Whoops, too versatile, there should be no tip2 so boxes labeled “Skagit” can be sold. Darn versatility!
Hopefully, members of this board can add to the list of reasons the WindCutter sucks.
A. The WindCutter is an excellent line for learning Spey casting.
B. The WC is an excellent line for long-distance Spey casting.
C. The WC is excellent for fishing, floating line or sink tip, small river or large.
D. The WC is an excellent line for overhead casting. One converts a WC Spey line to an overhead casting line by removing tip2 and casting with the body and tip1. Rio could sell more lines by making the WC less versatile. Less versatility for more sales certainly is a more modern marketing package than the present WC system.
E. The WC system includes only a body section, two tip2 sections, five tip1 sections and a storage wallet.
F. The five tip-1 sections provide performance from floating to intermediate, type 3, type 6 and type 8 sink. Too many choices.
G. The sink tips are density compensated. Ho hum.
H. The type 8 tip is certainly obsolete, it being more than a year since its introduction.
I. The two tip2 sections include the standard floater and an obsolete Compensator. The Compensator’s old age is the reason the line is colored gray—so fishermen won’t forget what a technically obsolete concept it is. This outdated tip2 allows a fisherman to fish a type 3, 6 or 8 at greater depths than with the floating tip2. It is the same concept as a dual front sprocket on a derailleur equipped bicycle. Or a high/low range selector in a truck or 4-wheel drive rig. Yeah, it’s old stuff.
J. The WC three-part system allows one to cast 300, 400, 500 grain “Big Boy” 24-foot sink tips by replacing tip2 and tip1 with the 24-foot tip. It makes one wonder why the obsolete WindCutters are capable of this. Again the outmoded concepts of solid engineering, field testing and doing it right the first time intrude.
K. In 2003 the WC head to running line joint was identified by a color change. Having an easily identified location in the line to place near the tiptop for normal casting is old fashioned.
L. Those that do not prefer the WC design concept of relatively heavier body with relatively lighter tip can turn the tip1 backward and have it the other way.
M. If you want a Skagit line [short head] eliminate tip2. Whoops, too versatile, there should be no tip2 so boxes labeled “Skagit” can be sold. Darn versatility!
Hopefully, members of this board can add to the list of reasons the WindCutter sucks.
