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A Fly Line That Floats to
the Top
Bob
Kloskowski
After a disappointing ten weeks of life from the fly line of
another manufacturer, I was searching for for a floating fly
line that would take me through the entire season without
cracks and without the usual sinking tips. I decided to try
another brand. A brand that for some reason I had ignored
for almost a decade. I decided to try the Cortland 444. I
removed it from it's package and put it onto my Hardy LRH. I
liked the Cortland idea of the line weight and type printed
on the line making it easy for you to identify what you are
using or need to use. Standing knee deep in the Firehole
River in Yellowstone National Park, I tied a #20 Baetis to
my tippet and worked my new Cortland Line through the
guides. It's performance was impressive. It shot through the
guides effortlessly and floated nice and high. Before long I
was fast to a beautiful Firehole River brown trout. I was
pretty satisfied with my Cortland 444 on it's first day
streamside but it's true test would come in several
weeks.
After about six months and almost
a hundred days of fishing the Cortland 444 is still on my
reel. With an occasional cleaning it continues to float high
and dry. Minor cracking is just starting to appear but it
has given me much more than the ten weeks of life that I
received from my old fly line.
I would recommend this line to my
friends.
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Copyright
@ 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 by
Bob Kloskowski
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