I need some help when it comes to line pickup when fishing with an intermediate line. I fished this past weekend for the first time using an intermediate line while wading in the Delaware Bay and just did not get the right feel when I went to cast after stripping line in. Is it the fact that it was my first time and inexperienced or is there something that I am missing. There was no slack in my line as far as I could tell and I would cast with about 30 feet of line in the water. My experiences at the Florida Fish In were different because I was using a WF line. I was using a 9 wt, 9 ft Winston Boron IIx and Wonderline Intermediate flyline, a 7.5 ft leader plus about 18 inches of 20# tippet added to the end of the leader with a clouser or deceiver. I would get this tremendous tug on the line on the pickup and then a hard shudder on the backcast right before I stop and begin the forward cast.

Jerry

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