Jimred and I have been experimenting with short weight forward lines for some time now . Here is Rio Lines coming out with the same concept in "small stream" reason for the weight concentrated in the first few feet of the line. I have been either cutting a heavy line with the front taper intact and welding a running line to it. Now Jim and I have decided to rather attach a shooting type running line for distance. Feel like our experiments have been justified at a lower cost.
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