Sharkskin
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With handling I also meant stripping line.
Obviously, when fishing streamers you strip a lot faster (and more frequent) than say fishing dries or nymphs. But nonetheless if you fish the whole day with dries and/or nymphs (I fish 99% of the time with nymphs) there’s still a lot of stripping involved. Not as quick & jerky as fishing streamer.
In fact, there are times you need to react to a quick take and you’ll strip a short distance of line pretty close to striking a streamer take.
If you are streamer fishing all day, with any fly line, you will have finger cuts. Wet hands and PVC running over your fingers when under pressure equals cut fingers. That is why companies have been making gloves and finger guards for years. So for those of us who are used to casting a big ugly to the bank, every 5 feet, for a 7 -8 mile float, cut finger protection is an old issue.
I just don’t agree. I’ve done a lot of streamer fishing sometimes for 8 hours or more at a time and I have yet to get a cut with my regular SA line. I’ve cast the sharkskin line. I agree that it casts great. I even kind of like the sound of it zinging through the guides. But I refuse to fish with one because I just don’t want to wear “finger protection” when I fish when there are so many good lines out there that don’t require it.
Greg
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