I've been fishing rabbit strip flies this winter. They're unweighted modest sized and based off this pattern https://pacificflyfishers.com/products/the-llama-black-blue. I'm fishing 'em on my 7130 with a Rio Short Belly using 15' of s3 with a combo of casts but mostly single spey.
They cast great at first. But somewhere in the 1-2 hour mark of fishing the same fly it gets significantly harder to cast. It doesn't feel heavier so much as it feels stickier. The interesting thing is that it seems to come on all at once. Cast 'n' goes great then cast 'n+1' has that 'shloopy' sound on the forward stroke and things can go sideways if I'm not careful. I have 2 working theories for the cause of this effect.
They cast great at first. But somewhere in the 1-2 hour mark of fishing the same fly it gets significantly harder to cast. It doesn't feel heavier so much as it feels stickier. The interesting thing is that it seems to come on all at once. Cast 'n' goes great then cast 'n+1' has that 'shloopy' sound on the forward stroke and things can go sideways if I'm not careful. I have 2 working theories for the cause of this effect.
- Rabbit strip takes that long to get completely 'soaked' and that thoroughly soaked state sinks faster.
- My casting goes to sh*t after a solid 90min of casting