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Im in my quest of choosing one line for each of my rods that will treat me well all year round. So with that said it needs to be able throw sink tips and fish dry when needed.
As of late I really like working with short belly and scandi lines. Scandis and cut back short belly lines handle poly tips in 10-15' range and up to 120gr or so. Im thinking of the idea using 10-15' T8 and light MOW tips. Such tip can be casted on my favored 7/8 Delta and with I MOW light tip I could fish more vertical presentation in some pocket or full of snag bottom runs. From fishing perspective I like how level tip fish more than tapered tips because im confident that very tip of my level tip is tracking depest and not splaying out as much as tapered one would. Anyways...
Turn over of heavy flies in my case is not the concern anymore as my flies as of late become sparse (think more classical flies) so T8 is more than enough from casting perspective.
My question to you is if you consider 15' T8 tip to be suitable for some of deepest and fastest runs you tend to fish? At some point I was a believer that once T tip is sunk and line comes under tention T8 would track deeper then T14 in same given lenght due to its thinner diameter but that changed after I spent more time on water realizing its not the case.
Im asking for your opinions even though I've spend lots of time with polyleaders and t11 im unsure how would T8 compromise things and if it could be my go to tip when I need to be fishing deep and slow. There aint no 7wt short belly that would turn t14 comfortably so...
As of late I really like working with short belly and scandi lines. Scandis and cut back short belly lines handle poly tips in 10-15' range and up to 120gr or so. Im thinking of the idea using 10-15' T8 and light MOW tips. Such tip can be casted on my favored 7/8 Delta and with I MOW light tip I could fish more vertical presentation in some pocket or full of snag bottom runs. From fishing perspective I like how level tip fish more than tapered tips because im confident that very tip of my level tip is tracking depest and not splaying out as much as tapered one would. Anyways...
Turn over of heavy flies in my case is not the concern anymore as my flies as of late become sparse (think more classical flies) so T8 is more than enough from casting perspective.
My question to you is if you consider 15' T8 tip to be suitable for some of deepest and fastest runs you tend to fish? At some point I was a believer that once T tip is sunk and line comes under tention T8 would track deeper then T14 in same given lenght due to its thinner diameter but that changed after I spent more time on water realizing its not the case.
Im asking for your opinions even though I've spend lots of time with polyleaders and t11 im unsure how would T8 compromise things and if it could be my go to tip when I need to be fishing deep and slow. There aint no 7wt short belly that would turn t14 comfortably so...