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Roger, You and I could go on pissing at each other all night about this, but that won't accomplish anything. I have prefaced everything that I have suggested by saying that my perspective is based on fishing in saltwater using traditional SW techniques, which include floating line, and I have given specific examples as to why I feel so. Our experience with beginning fishermen is obviously very different. I have found that a beginning fisherman, even from a boat, can cast a floating line easier and can still get their line down into the feeding zone by using a split shot and/or sink tips. It gives you THE OPTION of either casting and stripping or presenting the fly in a controlled natural manner, whisch is extremely difficult with a sinking line as there is drag on the entire line.
Beginners that I have worked with are also very hungry to get connected with the roots of SW flyfishing and to learn where it has come from and how to do it. I have talked to many people over the past year who gave up fly finshing because they thought it was too one dimensional and too much like spin fishing. Upon further inquiry, I have always been told that the only techniques they had been taught were cast and strip clousers or deceivers with sinking lines or poppers with intermediate lines, etc. To me that says that something is missing in the equation.
I congratualte you on your success with sinking lines and your success with your clients. I hope you continue to catch many more fish in the future. Peace, Skyomish
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