Leland on Rio Type 6 15 ft Density Compensated Sink Tip Fly Fishing Line
Streamer fishing in rivers and lakes requires the fly to get down to
the fish. The Density Compensated system from Rio keeps the line from
forming a belly, making it easier to detect strikes. The floating
running line allows for easy mending in swift currents. Big streamers
fished deep = BIG FISH!
Specifications:
- Type of taper: Weight-forward
- Length: 90 ft
- Core: Nylon Braided Multifilament
- Coating: Tungsten Coldwater Coating
- Color: Yellow running line with Black Tip
Leland on Freshwater Sinking Lines
Scientific Anglers and Rio increase fly line density
by adding powdered tungsten to the lines coating. By changing the
amount of tungsten and the diameter of the line, various sink rates are
produced. All Scientific Anglers and Rio sinking lines are density
compensated. This means that as the diameter of the taper changes, the
sink rate remains the same throughout the line. With density
compensation, the line descends at a uniform rate, increasing
sensitivity and strike detection.
Leland on Freshwater Lines
The varied habitats of freshwater fish
(and especially the trout's) require a wide range of line designs for
effective fishing. Luckily for the modern angler, engineers at Rio,
Sage, and Scientific Anglers have thought up a line for every possible
freshwater situation. Whether the line is tapered for distance (Expert
Distance, Sage TCR Performance), general purpose (GPX, Trout, Rio
Grande, Sage Performance), delicate presentation (XPS, Sage Quiet
Double Taper), technique specific (Nymph, Stillwater, Rio DC Sinking
lines), or otherwise, these lines deliver high performance for every
outing. These new lines employ a soft braided multifilament core for
low memory, easy mends and line handling as well as PVC coatings,
enhanced super slick processing which allows the line to slip
effortlessly through the guides, maximizing control and accuracy. With
developments like these, putting the fly in front of the fish has never
been easier.
Rio on Rio Type 6 15 ft Density Compensated Sink Tip Fly Fishing Line
"Density Compensated (DC) 15 Ft Sinking Tip
Fly Lines, The sink tip line of choice for nymph and streamer fishing.
The lines are designed with a balanced length of thick floating body to
eliminate the "hinge" or kick during the casting stroke. Density
compensation stops the problem of sinking tips from sinking in a curve.
With density compensation, the tip sinks at the same speed as the body
to get the fly down for more strikes and better strike detection."
Jim Vincent on RIO
Kitty and I started RIO in 1990 after ten years of
living and traveling in an Airstream trailer, fishing from Key West to
Northern British Columbia each year. This great lifestyle-which we
still enjoy today as often as possible-taught us plenty. In working as
freelance writers and photographers from coast to coast, we were able
to meet, write about, and photograph some of the best anglers in the
country. As we worked with them, they taught us their techniques. And
this in turn became part of an ever-growing knowledge base.
Long before RIO started manufacturing fly lines, I was a fishing bum
for many years. In the search for the right line, I'd make new tapers
all the time as I cut up and epoxy-spliced together pieces of fly line.
I come at fly line design from an intuitive rather than an engineering
point of view; experience drives innovation at RIO. We don't hire guys
in white lab coats to design a better way to connect a fish to a fly
line. The product development process has to incorporate the input of
fly fishers, guides and captains; and the hours, days, and years of
standing in rivers, wading on flats, surfcasting or standing on the
deck of a flats boat. We know that to create great products, you have
to spend hours on the water, in the water, casting, reading water,
combating and resolving myriad factors in order to catch fish
consistently. On the water is the primary laboratory, because only
there can one understand the truth about fly fishing.
RIO is recognized as the premier company in fly fishing products;
leaders and tippet materials for every fly fishing discipline as well
as for manufacturing the world's best fly lines at its Idaho factory.
To keep our customers happy, our product design and development
process is complex-because every fly fisher's experience on the water
presents numerous challenges. It takes creativity to synthesize in a
design all the many factors that affect the functionality of a fly
line, leader or tippet material. Luckily, the RIO Team is dedicated to
understanding the reality of the fly fishing process, because many
people who work at RIO are fly fishers; and it is our collective
experience and the expertise of our customers that drives RIO's
creative products.
So,
what kind of factors are we talking about? To name a
few . . . depth, distance, wind, delicate presentation, meteoric powerhouse
delivery, visibility, extreme heat, extreme cold, manageability, color
perception, and many others. Awareness of all these factors is how the
designs for RIO Products are born, as on-the-water experience and
understanding of nature meet man-made materials and techniques of the
laboratory and the fly line factory. Each product we bring you started
out in the minds of avid fly fishers, then evolved from "what if" to
"how?" This process is what our company is all about: the continual
search on many levels for the most functionally creative designs to
solve the problems presented not only by fish, but the elements and
environs in which they hunt and live. This process is what has brought
about our latest technological revolution."
