Reply To: Fly line suggestions

My suggestion would be to go with your rod in hand to Feather-Craft. Take your reel also. Feather Craft has reels set up with different weighted fly lines and will let you cast them in their side yard. That way you will know for certain what line will cast best. They will fill your reel for you with backing and the line you chose. Of course you gotta pay, but the use of their reels and lines is free. Not all fly line are equal. One 5 weight to another may weigh more in the head or belly compared to its brother from a different manufacture. That 4 wt. Winston I won at the raffle a few years ago works better with a 4 wt. Scientific Anglers Sharkwave than it did with a Rio Gold. Just a tad heaver I think. But it is a textured line and it makes a little noise.