Casting in cold weather

[geoffvl]

I'm wondering how much the cold weather has on casting. It seems quite a bit harder to get a nice cast. Just wondering if anyone else has this problem. Maybe i'm just losing it.

[FishFreak]

I have a hard time casting period LOL !!! Im still learning, but i do notice bit of a difference ex. frozen guides,cold hand etc...

[Eric]

only time i have a problem is when the guides start to freeze up.. it comes down to ice management. Kind of a pain but you get used to it if u winter steelhead alot.

[SalaR]

A common problem with casting in cold weather is often the lines we are trying to cast either their coatings or their cores. In the past few years much research has been done with line coatings that perform very well in the cold settings. Even Cortland that has historically had coiling lines because of the coatings . Air Flo had Mono core lines that were very bad indeed. The best lines I have ever cast in well below Zero weather are the Polyurethane coatings. But I think that is changeing. Cortland is now making for Beulah Elixir Switch and Spey lines that are getting rave reviews in the very cold conditions of Ontario and Alberta. Yet when Cortland was making the Hardy Mach series of fly lines the complaints were about coiling. Air Flo's 40 plus and their delta speys are still bad as is SA's Clear lines. MAny of the clear lines are useing a mono core for transparency reasons or tropics fishing..