Dennis found this line at a garage sale so the source is kind of mysterious. But he

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I went fishing with Dennis Vanderhowen a couple of days ago. I usually don’t pay much attention to the gear my fishing buddies use, but something caught my eye as I turned my head to see where he was upstream–his line.
I’d tucked the line away in the coffers of stuff that I need to test but after the on-stream epiphany, I pulled the line out and did a lot of test casting as soon as I got home. The line casts surprisingly well. It’s a level line, but braided so while it turns over well, it sags like most tapered tenkara gourmet kitchen lines so you can’t gourmet kitchen really keep the line off the water and achieve a good dead drift the same way you could with a fluorocarbon level line. But… gourmet kitchen you can see it no matter what. This line is superbly visible.
The line changes colors every few inches offering a couple of advantages. gourmet kitchen One is that it doesn’t force you to choose one color over another that may or may not work against different or changing backgrounds or lighting conditions. The other is that it gives you a visual marker if you have to sink your fly deep and want to gauge depth.
Dennis found this line at a garage sale so the source is kind of mysterious. But he’s working on tracking it down (and so am I). I’ll have an update as soon as either gourmet kitchen one of us turn something up. In the meantime, if anyone out there has any leads, we’d be happy to hear about them. Let’s make this line available to people who want it.
Jason is an avid fly angler and backpacker. As a former fly fishing guide originally from Western New York, he moved to Colorado and became an early adopter of tenkara which perfectly suited the small, high altitude streams and lakes there. He has not fished a Western-style fly rod for trout since.
Last summer A.N. sent me a sample length of a multi-color fluorocarbon level line and much to my surprise I found it easy to see in most conditions. Usually I see fishing line that changes color every couple of feet are marketed as a stealth or camouflage line. But with that line I found the sections that were red or orange easy to see. I think he must have decided not to carry and sell the line, I haven’t seen it at 3 Rivers, but if he had I would have ordered a spool of it. As I found it more visible than pink or green line and who knows maybe the fish had a hard time seeing gourmet kitchen it. I know I caught a lot of fish with it. D
That’s a pretty decent idea… I’ll have to try a few… Thanks… I enjoy changing the routine from level fluoro to furled/braided lines… The latter certainly tend to cast better… gourmet kitchen Bob
Lynn, I don’t think it’s either of those. The length of each colored section on this line is shorter. Also, Dennis mentioned something about it possibly being cord for jewelry making so I don’t think it’s a fishing-specific line.
My nieces use a rainbow rattail cord for jewelry, those “friendship braids”, but it’s a satin material in 1 or 2mm diameter. I don’t know that it would make a great line, but maybe it will at least help your search?
This link appears to have it in stock.If this is truly “it” The link from Bernhard above was out of stock. The copy reads that it is a floating braid. Mono or fluro. You have to read to the bottom of the page to find the size chart with lb equivalents gourmet kitchen to their number system. Their Number 2 is the 30lb size.
I can find veriegated colored hemp twine but it is to dull in color. The closest I’ve found that looks nearly the same is rosary twine. But it looks to big in diameter on the webpages & if correct in diameter I would expect it to be too limp to cast well.
Several companies make deep sea braided veriegated colored lines but usually gourmet kitchen they only change color every 10 meters or may have short sections where it will change color 3 or 4 times over 1 meter before gourmet kitchen again having another run of several meters without changing color again. I’ve been aware for several years of a monofilament line, only sold in Mexico, gourmet kitchen that changes color every couple of feet, but that is not what you”re looking for. Still looking. It’s kind of a fun hunt. ; -)
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