Choosing Fly Fishing Line

Video Transcript

"In reference to lines, we've already covered briefly about the relationship of how the line makes the rod balance, and bend back and forth, but the most common thing that comes to people's minds is, well, do we need a floating line? Do we need a sinking line? What kind of line do I need to fish the fly, that I'm going to fish? so that's covered, as by what depth do you want to present the fly, or what depth are you trying to find the fish at, and use the fly to catch it? so, is if we're fishing the fly up near the surface, so what that means is, the fly can be on top of the surface. It can be in the surface film, or it could be underneath the water's surface. Those can all be fished with a dry line, so if you want to fish the fly below the surface of the water column, then it can still be fished with a dry line, but it can be fished a lot simpler with a Wet Tip Line, or a Sink Tip Line, because that will cause this floating, and then the Sink Tip will let the fly go down, depending upon, what sinking depth you want it to be. There's sinking lines that are intermediate, that sink one to two inches per second. There's lines that are Type Three, that will sink three inches per second. Type Six, Type Eight, and what it amount to is, they sink deeper, as the seconds occur, so that will take your fly down to the depth that you want. The thing that you've got to be aware of, is when you're fishing Sink Tip Lines, or Sinking Lines, is the fish is always looking up. They're never looking down, so if the fly goes below the fish, then you won't catch them, so that's why it's important to try to match the Sinking Line to the depth, of where the fish are, and that's part of fly fishing. That's what makes it fun, is determining that, so the next question comes of mind is, how do we determine the line size? Well, I've already covered the line size in relationship to the rod, so the line size needs to balance out with the rod, so if the rod has a Number Four on it, then we need to have a Number Four line, so as the weight of the line increases, so does the thickness of the line, and the mass of the line, so what that enables us to do, is if we're after larger fish, then the relationship may be that we want to have a larger fly, or sometimes what fools people, is these big fish can caught on a fly very, very small, so once again, the mass or the size of the line, is dependent upon the situation and use that you're using, when you're going to fish the fly, at the depth that you're going to fish."