Trouble with line pick up

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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If I understand what your issue is just strip in some more line and give it a quick roll cast to bring the front of the line to the surface. Then quickly start your normal backcast.

Make sure you don't have too much line out when you do this. I think having 30 feet out is too much to get things going. There is too much tension on the line to tug it out properly.

EPO says it all. The issue is that you are not breaking surface tension with an intermediate line, you are pulling the line up through the water column. Much harder to do. That is why the roll cast will help get the line up, and the quick cast after is to catch the line before it starts to sink too deeply again. You usually have to pull in more of the line with any sinking line before you can cast again.

On the other hand, when shore fishing, you often catch fish right in the surf, only a few feet from shore so those last few feet can often be the most productive.

jed

Why do you think all these pirates have very large right shoulders?

Lift that line----aaaaarrrrrggggghhh

Larry