When lake fishing I will use ether an intermediate line or a sink tip wen I am not dry flying. It all depends on how deep I want to go. The heavy sink tip gets me down to the bottom and the intermediate gets me in the 3 to 5 foot range for depth, the way I fish them.

On bigger and deeper rivers, I usually use a very heavy sink tip along with heavy streamers when I am chucking and ducking while fishing for Smallmouth Bass, or working streamers for large trout in deeper waters on the rivers.

Larry ---sagefisher---