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dubthethorax
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After trying out a sinking leader while fishing the Salmon River, and watching my friend blast long casts on his switch rod with floating line and a 6 foot sink tip, I'm considering moving in to the world of sink tips.
I bought a Cortland customizable mini-head kit for $9 at Dicks, just because I thought it was pretty cheap. It has 12 ft of sinking line (6 inches per second sink rate) and it comes with two sets of loop connections and heat shrink tubing to secure it. It will basically make two line extensions.
I plan on using sink tips to fish big non-weighted, or not-to-heavy weighted streamers with a short leader of straight mono.(Dungeons, Cougars, Articulated bunnies, leeches, pike flies, etc)
I have two rods that I'd most likely be using them with. The first is a St. Croix Imperial 9" 6 weight with SciAnglers WF floating line (trout), and the 2nd is a 11.5" LSI 8 weight switch rod with Rio switch line(pike, steelies, salmon, etc)
I guess I want to know what the best way would be to chop up this 12 feet of sinking line to make two tips. Should I go with a 4 foot and an 8 foot, 7 and 5, etc? Or am I way off here? I'm afraid the line might be a little too heavy for my six weight.
I bought a Cortland customizable mini-head kit for $9 at Dicks, just because I thought it was pretty cheap. It has 12 ft of sinking line (6 inches per second sink rate) and it comes with two sets of loop connections and heat shrink tubing to secure it. It will basically make two line extensions.
I plan on using sink tips to fish big non-weighted, or not-to-heavy weighted streamers with a short leader of straight mono.(Dungeons, Cougars, Articulated bunnies, leeches, pike flies, etc)
I have two rods that I'd most likely be using them with. The first is a St. Croix Imperial 9" 6 weight with SciAnglers WF floating line (trout), and the 2nd is a 11.5" LSI 8 weight switch rod with Rio switch line(pike, steelies, salmon, etc)
I guess I want to know what the best way would be to chop up this 12 feet of sinking line to make two tips. Should I go with a 4 foot and an 8 foot, 7 and 5, etc? Or am I way off here? I'm afraid the line might be a little too heavy for my six weight.