Walter & Group......
Thought I'd pass on some comments I've received on the new SHARKSKIN lines from SA :
From Jerry Puckett:
Gordy,
Glad you have had a chance to use the line. I will share with you some of
my experiences with the Sharkskin having just returned from the Hams Fork
in Wyoming. It casts with ease due to less friction and is a roll cast
delight, seems to really reduce the workload significantly. After three
days of fishing with this line no dirt accumulation. We will see what time
tells!
Would you keep in mind this one comment from Matt at Western Rivers here in
Salt Lake when you cast distance with it. He felt that the front taper
might need a little tweaking. His experience was the line was continuing
through the guides at a distance cast making it difficult for the leader to
turn over and straighten out.
I will be in Beau Bridge La. this weekend helping teaching a casting course
with CCI Keith Richards, Jay Clarke and Tom Jindra and will cover some of
these concerns with them in casting. Will give you feedback when I return
next Tuesday!
Had a intermeiate caster use this line and he is headed to the store in
Chicago. I made no attempt to sell him or explain the technology. After a
day fishing with it he is going to buy this line just based on a day of
fishing with it!
Overall, it is a great line with curves, mends and other presentation
casts. Caught a lot of big healthy rainbow with it so it does catch fish.
I was able to place it within inches of rising trout up to forty feet, very
supple line for fresh water trout fishing!
Hope you continue to do well, there is a real void when your e-mails are
absent so look forward to resummation. I guess I am a druggie when it
comes to these e-mails. I have been without a fix to long.
Have attached a short writing!
God bless Jerry
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From Bruce Richards :
Hi Jerry,
Thanks for copying me, I do enjoy getting Sharkskin reports!
Matt's comments were appropriate.... Although the Sharkskin lines are great
distance lines, this particular taper wasn't designed specifically to be
the ultimate distance taper. Obviously this line must work for fishing
first, and for the average guy who buys one. There will be a line coming
specifically for distance casting and it will be fine tuned for better
casters who carry and shoot more line. To start with though, we needed a
line that would work well for most everyone, and this line sure seems to do
that! I've had no trouble with this line up to about 100 ft., but to
consistently go longer than that (for those few people who really can...),
I'll change the head length and front and rear tapers to facilitate longer
carry and better turnover at distance.
Thanks Jerry,
Bruce
Scientific Anglers/3M
4100 James Savage Rd.
Midland, MI 48642 USA
Tel: 989-496-1113
Fax: 989-496-3374
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From Jack Minkow:
I'm the
"intermeiate caster (use this line and he is) headed to the store
in
Chicago" about whom Jerry writes. As soon as I got back to Chicago I
ordered the line through Trout and Grouse in Northfield, Illinois.
Of course I prefer catching fish but I've always enjoyed just casting to a target. This line is analogous to the newer designs in golf clubs, it allows the lesser talented to feel positive feed back every time an attempt is made.
Although some more experienced fishers might feel otherwise about the sound of the line shooting from the rod, I love the "space like" low volume pitch.again it makes me feel like I'm accomplishing something special.
For fishers like me, this is a big winner. Yesterday I stopped in Bass World (Gurnee) to ask about it and the one salesperson in the fly department hadn't yet even heard of it.
Get the word out, this line makes us wanabe's feel like pros. I'm reminded of the feeling I get when I walk on the people movers at the airports-defying gravity, while everyone else is saddled with the normal.
Jack Minkow
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