It all depends on what you're fishing. If you're fishing Leland's infamous
popper, of course, a floating line is necessary. I have a tendency to use a
floating line with lightly weighted flies; bead-chain eyed streamers and the
like, or an intermediate-sink line with unweighted flies. Another option is
to use an intermediate-sink shooting head with floating .029 diameter
running line. Blair Alexander, Les Johnson, Leland, Bob Young and I went to
Ala Spit this morning and fished an outgoing tide. Between us we hooked
three pinks and landed two. Does anyone have any thoughts on what run of
the tide provides the best fishing at Ala Spit? Leland and I will probably
be at Lincoln Park early tomorrow morning to catch the low light conditions
regardless of the tide.
