fly lines for bass
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i just bought a new g loomis shorestalker 8’6″ 7 wt need a line for it . thinking about a wulff bass. wanting to throw big poppers and streamers for trout and smallmouth. what you think ? this rod is fast action.
I am a big fan of Rio lines as well, take a look at the Rio Clouser line it is designed for throwing big flies.
Bill,
Of course you’ve got to have a floating line to fish bugs and such, but you’ll catch a lot more bass/trout with streamers–clousers, buggers and such by using a Density Compensated Sink Tip (200-250gr) for a 7wgt. They get flies down fast and keep them there in front of the fish. Fishing streamers on floating lines just doesn’t get the fly down without alot of undue weight that impedes casting. DC Sink Tips cast like rockets with fast rods and can be fished in ANY water depth–shallow to deep.I question: Do we really need a special fly line for each species?
Randy
To cover every water column and fly selection one needs ALOT of different fly lines. The only thing that species has to do with the line selection process is fly selection and its preferred place of residence i.e., fast current, deep calm water, etc.
For my fly rods, six- to nine-weight, I use the old Orvis shooting heads -38 feet – no matter what species I’m fishing for. In each weight I have three lines, floating, intermediate and a sinkiing.
For me, I feel pretty well covered. I’m not going to spend money on a bass line. I just don’t feel it will make much of a difference when it comes to catching fish. Also, I’ve found that some of these so-called specialty lines cast a little funny, maybe because I’m not used to them, which brings up another question: Do I want to have to adapt my casting to each line?
That’s my two cents.
I will put in a plug for the Rio Clouser lines, they turn the big bulky flies with authority, lot of front loading.
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