Most of these tips are 12' - 15' long. I'll primarily use the type iiii and vi with a short leader on streams, and the clear intermediate for very low water. All three, plus the floating, get used on lakes. I've even doubled up the iii and vi for trollling (I don't own a full-sink line).
I was primarily swinging, sometimes quatering downstream, and sometimes casting straight across with some upstream mends to get the fly down deeper. Sometimes a little twitching thoughout the swing, sometimes not. Then a slow retrieive up at the "dangle", let it drift back down, then back up, then strip in, step down, and cast again.
Most hits came near the end of the swing.
Hope this helps. And FYI, Rio makes a nice multi-tip system, which I use on my 8wt.
Tom
From: "Mark Steudel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: <[email protected]> Subject: Sinktips for 5wt's ( was: Yak Farmlands Report 2-19) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:01:49 -0800
Thanks for the report. I'm kinda interested in sink tips for trout rods (around 5 wt)
Question 1: How do you make them, what length's and sink rates do you use?
Question 2: Are you primarily swinging? Or do you dead drift/slow swing as well?
Thanks, Mark
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of T. Lang Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 6:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Yak Farmlands Report 2-19
On the water by 10, off at 3:30.
Sunny, calm, no need for jacket. Midges present, and skwala nymphs under rocks near shore. No surface feeding action seen.
Worked skwala/PT combo, adult skwala dropper, no luck. Working back down,
switched to a type vi sink-tip and olive sculpin: two very nice RBs, one in
bright mating colors. Missed two more.
Fish hit in the middle part of a longer, deeper run, near the end of the swing.
Observed a bald eagle sunning itself from about ten feet. That beak is big!
Summary: two fishermen, two fish, two sun/wind burns.
Tom
