As the trout season rapidly approaches I've been gradually getting stuff ready and treating myself to some new toys (as you do
) but whilst I was putting a new silk furled leader onto one of my lines I started thinking about 'stuff' in a wee bit more in detail and this is what my question is......
My favourite river line is the Partridge Dry & Delicate (because it's green and I like green - ok
) but when I'm on the river do I really need a fly line with yards and yards of continuous running line
I don't think so.
So I got to thinking about exactly how much of the line do I
really use on the river, the answer was probably a maximum of 15 yards and that's a
maximum distance I probably cast when wading up to my oxters etc etc. More often than not it's going to be under 10 yards.
The reason this is bugging me a smidgen is becuase I just chopped a good 8 yards+ off the running line end of my Dry & Delicate as I simply don't need it and it now fits on my wee Lamson better
But I really hate chopping up a perfectly good fly line
.... then again do I really need it all
But how many folk jam a line onto a reel that they're never going to get the full use of
Especially on a river
Is there a case for having shorter length presentation orientated WF lines for close up use
A return (as many of us already have) to DT lines
Or am I just thinking about this way toooooooo much
Hamish