which sinking line for smallmouth rivers?
I fish the Youghiogeny River in SW Pa for smallmouth. There are plenty of 6-10 foot deep runs that I just can't touch with a 1/36oz Clouser and a floating line. So the need for sinking line becomes obvious. But......which sink rate am I after?
A guide on the river highly recommended this one:
Scientific Anglers Mastery Uniform Sink Plus II
So I see it's a type II, rated at 2-3" per second. I was thinking I very likely needed a faster sinking line, though his advice is probably pretty good. My reason to question it....I'd be waiting 4-6 seconds per foot of drop, water's 6' deep, I'm half a minute into waiting for the fly to hit the 6' mark. Seems too long?
To those of you fishing sinking lines in smallie rivers, which ones and why?
Re: which sinking line for smallmouth rivers?
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Originally Posted by LigonierA1
To those of you fishing sinking lines in smallie rivers, which ones and why?
In my neck of the woods we have some "black water" rivers with some respectable deep holes and I like to fish from my canoe. Here's where I get a lot of use out of sinking lines and it seems to me the use is harder on them then on the floating lines.
May I suggest, start basic (and cheaper), by that I mean I use the standard ole "high performance, general purpose" S.A. line, available at a lot of WallyMart stores for about $12.00 - for what I do they work just fine and about one good season of use, they'll be used the following season for another purpose ... like maybe holding up the tomatoe vines in the garden!
Dale