Originally Posted by
J Castwell
This is probably only important or of interest to a few of you. One disagreeable characteristic of fly lines is creep, or recoil. This is the amount of 'recoiling' it does when you cast it out perfectly straight on calm water, such as a lake or pond. The warm line, laying on the colder water will create small wiggles in itself as it creeps back to the caster. This varies from line to line, as core and coating determine this problem. It IS a problem when you want to keep a reasonably direct line to your fly after having cast it out. If the line creeps a lot you have to constantly KEEP BRINGING IT IN TO KEEP IT TIGHT. This feature is not often considered by those claiming a certain line is good or bad,,, but should be. Even though you may not now be fishing calm water, it can be important even on an upstream cast on a slowly moving stream. Just something to look at the next time you say, "I really like,,,."