Tom....
As you know, I much prefer a high viz line for teaching, practice and demonstrations. Orange is best for me.
Except for distance casting, I use a line the designation of which matches that of the rod. Sometimes I give a class on curve casting, specialty casts, mends and hookcasts. For this purpose, I DO use one line wt. designation greater than that of the rod. Not because it casts better, but because I can handle it fine at the moderate distances used for this teaching, and it's thicker, so shows up better so the students can see it more easily.
Having students use lines of greater wt. than the rod designation is one way of having them gain an early, "feel" of loading. That's especially true if they are using medium fast rods.
Those yellow-jacket TFO's are good teaching tools.
Bruce Richards of Scientific Anglers has a limited number of orange XXD lines in 7 wt. for CCI and Master candidates......you best contact him directly.
Scientific Anglers has one line in the Mastery series called the, "Mastery Expert Distnce Line." I haven't tried it, but know that it has an extra long belly which tapers down to the running line. That suggests to me that it might yield good control for most casts in addition to distance. I don't know if it comes in orange. If there is another Sc. A. Mastery line to replace the XXD, I don't know about it.
From: "North Fork Flies - Tom Cooper" <cooper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: "North Fork Flies - Tom Cooper" <cooper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <hillshead@xxxxxxx>
Subject: XXD compepition line
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:50:18 -0500
Gordy,I understand there is a new line out to replace the XXD line. I am looking to replace the Wulff Triangle Taper orange lines on my 5 and 7 weight instruction rods. I wondered what the new line's designation is and if it will be available in optic orange?Depending on how this line works for instruction I might use it only for my own casting. I use the TFO Yellow Jacket Instructor rods. The high visibility of the bright yellow rod and optic orange line make it easier for students to follow demonstrations.The TFO Yellow Jacket is a fairly fast rod and I am thinking it might be best for lesson demos to overline it one line weight to slow it down. I would, however, use the proper line weight for my own casting. This might have been covered in earlier threads, but what I'm looking for is suggestions on lines for demos and my own testing.I prefer an optic orange line and I'm sold on the TFO rod and am not looking to start a thread on it's qualities.Thanks
Tom Cooper