Yeah, this, or even for limited casting, too. Or, now that it’s a little clearer what @Kashf is planning, you could do the homemade super sinking shooting head of say 17’ - 25’ of T-17 to T-21 depending on what you can get your hands on, looped to running line of your choice. Adjust to your rod’s ability to pick it all up and sling it. I’ve tried this and it does work and get down deep.If you’re mostly trolling these do you really need shooting head variants with new age tapers and slick unicorn coatings? Why not go with a wetcel, mainstream or other basic sinking line?
Ooo that sounds spicy! Nab some t6 running line off a fly line and make your own head from the t-17 now that would get down nicely into the 30-40ft depth you mentioned.Yeah, this, or even for limited casting, too. Or, now that it’s a little clearer what @Kashf is planning, you could do the homemade super sinking shooting head of say 17’ - 25’ of T-17 to T-21 depending on what you can get your hands on, looped to running line of your choice. Adjust to your rod’s ability to pick it all up and sling it. I’ve tried this and it does work and get down deep.
It’ll even drag an intermediate running line down hella deep.Ooo that sounds spicy! Nab some t6 running line off a fly line and make your own head from the t-17 now that would get down nicely into the 30-40ft depth you mentioned.
I knew I kept the 60ft of s6 5wt running line for a reason
I knew I kept the 60ft of s6 5wt running line for a reason
25lb core strength I'm usually running tippet 10-14lbYou might regret using that if you hooked a nice chinook…
ah, so you'll regret it when you break off with the tippet....25lb core strength I'm usually running tippet 10-14lb
I’ll definitely get a good laugh I put chum and kings on 14lb sunline fc and landed them no prob. 90% of the coho was on it too.ah, so you'll regret it when you break off with the tippet....
full disclosure, never fished for those guys up there....
When I’ve wanted to target “deep” to deeep fish with a bug rod, I’ve sent my flies down with a downrigger.Really good knowledge to have, thank you. If I’m fishing down to around 40ft deep, will a type 3 be enough? I’m not going to be doing very much of the traditional “cast to shoreline” fly fishing that we do for SRC or a lot of coho fisheries, it’ll be mostly the open water game