This may sound unbelievable to some but after fly fishing for more than 20 years I have recently become a convert to double taper fly lines. Before last year I was a dyed-in-the-wool weight forward guy but now I use DT?s for 95% of my trout fishing which leads me to a stupid question; when do YOU reverse your DT line:
When the front half is worn
Once each season or at some other semi-regular interval
I even had some guy suggest after EACH use; like I do with my bamboo rod tips. (That suggestion was quickly discarded by me with the comment: ?NO, (expletive deleted), WAY!
A consensus from the long time DT devotees would be appreciated.
Bamboozle,
The only DT I’ve fished I cut in half and fished it until it was well used then tied on the other half.
Naturally you’d need to add a bit of backing to do that.
Keep the second half in a closet, warm and dry and out of the light and it’ll be fine for a long time.
Most of my spools are loaded with DT lines 'cause I like the way it casts and because, … as you noticed, … we can trun it around and have a “new” line.
I’ll turn around the line when the tip is getting worn out. Not cracks etc, … just worn, … too dirty to clean (again) or damaged by rocks 'n gravel (I have a poor back cast).
Depending on how hard you are on a line, … that could mean after 20-30 days on the water.
I don’t turn them around back and forth continually because I’m too lazy, … maybe I should.
I wear out one end, then turn it around. This does not really help with long-distance casting once the second end is being used, but I so seldom need to reach out and touch something that it doesn’t matter much to me.
I walked out of a shop a couple months ago when I was looking for a DT and the salesman insisted that a WF was what I needed in order to fish effectively. When he got to the point where he told me I didn’t know what I was doing, I left.
I turn my DT lines around, clean and dress every year even if i don’t fish them. If you fish them a lot twice a year is a good idea. I don’t honestly know if it will last longer… But Jim Green told me to do that it would. And that is good enough for me.