I’m looking to spool up my 6 weight and my 8 weight with a Type 7 sinker, and target Puget Sound coho in the tide rips in deeper water. Puget Sound is always a fishery where we want to cast as far as we can, and having a shooting head line is helping me with that tremendously. That said, shooting heads are expensive, and so are extra spools. I was considering a Cortland seek type 7 two sizes heavy for my six weight, and then spending the extra bucks on a nice AirFlo 40+ or SA Sonar for the 8wt. How would that Cortland set up cast compared to a true shooting head? Alternatively, at the moment I don’t have a beach line for my 8wt, and as I understand, a full sink type 3 can be highly effective on the steeper beaches. The time of the year where I‘d be casting for coho from the beach with an 8wt typically has bigger waves, and to keep from hanging up I can always strip faster. As to why I insist on spooling up the 8wt, whenever I am fishing off a boat I am always with my dad, (The boats real captain, I am just the full time fishing guide) or with friends when I get the opportunity to take it out. It would be nice to keep as second rod on the boat to hand off to keep it fun for everyone on board. This wouldn’t be “true fly fishing” but with how shallow coho run some times, I would be interested to see the results using a fly rod with a full sink as a “shotgun rod” while downrigger trolling, and I imagine I would need a type 7 to get deep enough to be effective.