Just as a postscript to the earlier post, this blog's other co-author ventured out in less than promising conditions for a few casts this afternoon and proved the worth of these new-fangled Skagit lines. The river was rising and carrying a tinge of colour but a couple of hours with a 12'9" 8 weight rod lined with 550gr Rio Skagit head and an 8ft T-14 sink tip produced a couple of violent pulls, the second of which resulted in this sea trout being banked. The fly? Let's just say it was a dirty great steelhead fly armed with a size 2 stinger hook and leave it at that! Apologies for the picture of my knee - it was a rushed photograph as I wanted to get the sea trout back in the river where she belongs.
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