Stripers, stripers, stripers! You got to love hooking these scrappers, and you need to have a good line to get to them. This 26 foot sinktip fires flies out and drops them fast, from East to West coasts, from schoolies to cruisers, this is it! Choose either the 200, 250, 300, 400, 450, or 550 grain weight lines to match your rod and your fishing depth. Go get 'em.
Rio Striper Taper Density Compensated Coldwater
Specifications
- Type of Taper: Weight Forward Sinking Head
- Total Line Weight: 110 ft
- Core: Flexible Single Strand Monofilament
- Coating: Tungsten Coldwater
- Color: Color coded for line weight
SALTWATER SINKING LINES:
Scientific Anglers and Rio increase fly line density by adding powdered tungsten to the 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.
SALTWATER LINES:
Saltwater fishing can mean bigger flies, windy conditions and warm water temperatures. A good salt water line should be tapered for distance and turnover, bringing the fly into the closest proximity to the fish. Lines, with the cores consisting of multifilament for cooler conditions and single and braided monofilament for warm to hot temperatures, should be designed for the intended fishing temperatures. Finally, the coating must have ultraviolet inhibitors to retard the effects of sunlight and a specialty saltwater coating to increase durability against the elements. Much to the chagrin of saltwater fish around the world, the gurus at Scientific Anglers, Rio, and Sage have formulated lines that fulfill all of these criteria. With proven taper designs, these lines will handle saltwater conditions with ease, whether your target is bonefish, stripers, or tarpon.
RIO LINE NOTES:
"Striped Bass 26 Ft Density Compensated Line ? Powerflex® Core This line has low memory, supple monofilament core and a coldwater coating formulation as well as a translucent intermediate running line and a DC 26 ft fast sinking head. The density compensated head will put your fly in the strike zone. Includes welded loops on both ends."
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."
