Rainbow wrote: The tragedy in all this that in our fixation (the one eyed leading the blind) to go with Skegit we have been largely ignorant that Scandinavian anglers have been casting the full range of sinking shooting heads (Scandi style) much more elegantly and with minimal disturbance of the fishing water. |
Personally I could not give a continental how people want to flyfish. However, I care very much when some slow learners want to perpetuate bull**** against very clear logic and confuse lesser experienced fly fishers. The difference between the Guideline ULS 3D+ sinking shooting head and the Skegit system is quite clear. Skegit uses a heavy floating head (casting weight) to propel a heavy tip (sinking weight), In the Guideline 3D head the casting weight is already built into the rear of the delta shaped head to provide the ideal casting mass in the D-Loop. It is important to note that casting weight is not the same as sinking weight. So in a nutshell the sink weight increases towards the tip while the casting weight increases towards the rear of the head. It would be easy to create a delta shape in a single density sinking head but this would mean the the rear would sink faster than the tip, which of course would not fish well at all. That is why these sinking heads use a multi density design to sink tip first on a shallow angle. What are the advantages of such heads:
A. They weigh far less (a #8 head is only 240 grain irrespective of its sink rate configuration) A #8 Sink3,S5,S7 head still only weighs 240 grains.
B. Because in the water-column the whole head sinks into slower water and therefore swings slower and holds a fly down deeper.
C. Since they do not need a floating casting weight they sink easier and quicker as both the casting weight and the sinking weight is distributed along the density integrated head.
D. They can be overhead, Skandi and Skegit cast with single or double handed rods.
E. As there is no floating head swinging on the surface these sunken heads do not disturb fish.
F. It is my firm belief that in New Zealand these heads will make the Skegit system completely redundant.
Cheers
Rainbow
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