This may be an old question, but I don't remember reading it on the board before. For almost all of my fishing a really long cast will be about 30ft. The creeks just aren't big enough for any lengthier casting, of course my skills aren't either. But yesterday I got a chance to really let one fly, probably all of 45to 50 ft. (For my part of the world, that is a great big hole of water.) Anyway, I got into some of my fly line that isn't used very often. I started to reel in some of the slack that I didn't shoot out, and noticed that the line had stayed coiled up very tightly. As a matter of fact, for a moment there, I thought I had managed to tie a "wind knot" in my fly line lying at my feet! Thankfully that "knot" came undone without to much work. Which leads me to my question, do I need new line or do I just need to get out on bigger water occassionally and let my line out or what?

thanks in advance,
hNt