Your best bonefish fly line

[djack]

Hi

What would be your best floating bonefish line. I hesitate between different brands and i can't manage.
Help !

Djack

[fly]

None in my experience. Buy an intermediate. These fish pick up off the bottom, mostly, and you want to get your fly down there in advance of them stumbling accross it. Also floaters are more likely to cast a shadow.

$0.02

[Vic T]

I have to disagree with Fly on intermediate lines. You want a floating line so you can lift the line from the water quickly and quietly when you need to make a second cast. The sound of an intermediate line ripping the water surface will spook every nearby bonefish. Your fly will get down fast because it has weighted eyes for just that prupose. Plus you'll be fishing water that ranges from ankle deep to thigh deep. A weighted fly on a 10' leader will get down to the bottom in 3 seconds.

All the experienced bonefishermen and the Bahamas guides that I have met use Scientific Anglers Bonefish lines exclusively.

[Mark Dougherty]

Wulff...saltwater....triangle taper.....fast loading.....yet nice presentation...

[widdoes]

SA Mastery Series Bonefish Taper. Casts like a dream and I'm a fan of the color (blue/gray),too.
Ditto on the floating v. sinking question; i.e. sink the fly, not the line.

[Marshrunner]

Sci Angler's Mastery bf floater is my favorite for taper.

Vic has it right on intermediates for bf. It takes too long to recast these slow sinkers whether to zigzagging fish or because you just plain miss on your first cast. To cast again, you have to strip too much line back in, and then you create too much disturbance when you pull it up through the surface. With a good 10 or 12 ft leader on a floater, and a properly weighted fly for the depth you are fishing, your fly should get to the bottom plenty fast enough. Intermediates, and any other sinkers, have one other drawback on southern flats--their belly sits so low when you have a fish on, it tends to foul on bottom structure like coral, mangrove seedlings, sea ferns, and the like.

[teflon_jones]

My vote would go to the Cortland 444 LazerLine/Tropic Plus Fly Line. Casts like a dream even in very windy conditions, which is key.

[Tord]

Having used both Orvis bonefish taper line and Rio Mainstream Saltwater I would vote for the latter. I like the light blue color, the floatability is excellent and remains so even after fishing 10 days with the line, and the line is virtually free from coil memory.

Another advantage with the Rio is that it is possible to use even in temperate conditions, which broadens the application area. I have not tested it yet but friends of mine have so.

/Tord

PS
If you buy one line only, it should be a floating line, ***not*** an intermediate. If you plan to fish (usually from anchored boat) on fish feeding deep on sand bottom, then also buy a true sinking line.