H, when I was at the Scottish Youth national, my boat partner said he had 64 (yes 64!) lines! Why so many, I have about 8 - 10 lines and I’m fine, any have any idea why he had so many lines!?

No idea. How the h..l does he decide which one to use? I have floaters in sizes #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #7 & #10; intermediates in sizes #7 & #10 & fast sinkers in sizes #7 & 10. However, being mainly interested in river fishing for wild fish the only lines I regularly use are floaters in sizes #2, #3 & #4.I haven’t used a sinking line for 4 years, not even on the small still waters I fish.
Dave Southall

For stillwaters you need sinkers but on rivers the heabviest i use is a midge tip

I would imagine I have in excess of 40 lines in different profiles/types for all my various rods - excluding shooting heads. Excessive? Not really and I’m not a competition angler.
I know several serious competition anglers who carry a myriad of lines in a bewildering range of densities every time they fish a competition. Whilst you can get away without them it makes sense for an ardent competition fisher to carry as broad an armoury as possible to cover every possibility….. 64 lines is perhaps a smidgen excessive though…. unless that’s the total number of lines owned.

Without the competition element I’d be happy with 3 - floater, intermediate and sink, with polytips I can make any of these lines fulfill the specification of other lines. But polytips make the floating line the most versatile in your armoury. IMHO at least.

Hi Hamish, I agree, it’s 64 lines overall including river line etc. But I thought in a youth competition that was quite a lot!

I don’t think I would ever need 64 lines, but then again I don’t fish competitively. My armoury of lines is as follows:-

Salmon Fishing - 1 floater, 1 intermediate and 1 sinker. I also carry polyleaders in various densities which I use mainly with the floater.

Trout fishing on rivers, 1 floater and polyleaders.

Trout fishing reservoir, wild loch and other still waters 1 floater, 1 midge tip, 1 intermediate and 1 sinker. Also the polyleaders for a bit more versatility.

Taking into account the different weights of line I have around 14 to 16 lines that get fairly regular use and some as yet unused spares. 

Having totted the lines up I have more than I thought I had, but I never carry more than 4 at any one time ie when fishing at a stillwater for trout.

Nice, I’ve got 15-20 lines, yeah, you’re right, I use roughly the same amount and types of lines.

Try buying 64 (or only 10) lines at Aussie $130 each for SA or Rio.  Nothing of quality available in this country for less than $90.  I own WFF 3, 5 and 7.  Most used is the WFF 5 for both stream and lake in Aussie and even NZ for the big brutes.  Sometimes the WFF 7 is required to combat the strong winds in NZ.

I don’t know why competition anglers have more than one line. Even though people not in a comp were catching on buzzers fished on floating lines, they still all fished blobs on Di7s. If you are going to be so blinkered why load yourself down with alternatives you are not going to use?

Cheers,
C.

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