Are the Super Lines Worth It???
I didn't want to step on the post that asked whether the Sharkskin or the Ridge line was better so I started this post.
The assumption behind this question is that the questioner needs rather than wants one of these lines. I'm not sure that is true, so the question is why does anyone feel these lines do that is worth $100.00?
I've listened to a podcast by a member of the Sci Anglers pro staff as to why the Sharkskin was so great but I was not convinved that it was worth the cost.
To those of you that own these lines, WHY? What fishing situations are so technical that it requires a super line that cannot be fished with equal effectiveness with a $50.00 line? I'm sure there are a few so what are they?
Are Super Lines Worth It?
Hello Silver,
I can remember a time before Scientific Anglers introduced the original Ultra lines. To me, those were Super Lines. They cost more than what I had been using and they were worth every penney they were asking for one. In the late nineties I started buying Rio's Versi-tip lines that topped the one hundred dollar mark, they were and still are worth every nickel.
Yet for any of the applications where I need to use a full floating line ( either a DT or WF ) be it for salt of fresh water, there are a myriad of great lines that fill my needs, well below one hundred dollars.
So no, I won't be running out to buy one anytime soon.
Then again, since the beginning of November I've been putting in five to six days of fishing a week - all with shooting heads and Amnesia. Old habits die hard and sometimes, inexpensively.
Best, Dave
Addendum:
This isn't Scientific Anglers first whirl into the world of ridged or rough surfaced fly lines. Around the late eighties or early nineties they had a line of clear ( relatively ) slow sinking / intermediate saltwater lines that had a new ridged surface on them. I still have one on my McNeese A/R Permit reel. That line sounded as if I was casting a flexible hacksaw blade.