Running/shooting line.

**phearless** · January 30th, 2008, 11:29 PM

Anybody want to share what they like and why.
I have been using Airflo. Can't remember what it is called but it has a mono core and braided mono on the outside.
I like it. Handles very well. Very few tangles.
It is also easy to hold on to.
Plus I like the colour.Kinda hot green/chart.

**Rick Baerg** · January 30th, 2008, 11:52 PM

Well, have been oll over the map on this subject, tried RIO, SA, LOOP. AIRFLO, and have recently tried some new stuff, turned on to me by a friend. Guideline GL Shooter, its very interesting stuff, hollow core floating running line. Once it is straight it remains straight and shoots like you wouldn't beleive, very nice stuff. Comes in #25, #35 and #50 pound breaking strength.

I want to try the airflo line phearless has suggested, played with it briefly, seem very interesting.

**SalaR** · January 31st, 2008, 06:27 AM

Well.like most of us I have tried and worked with many running lines...includeing the new Guideline Shooter and Air Flo's and Loops . Snowbee just sent me some very bright yellow running line that is supposed to be awesome,braided core and very slick...
the old standby Amnesia is very effective but I really don't like the coils and the kinking.
Will try out and show and tell.
C

**TimDog** · February 1st, 2008, 12:49 PM

Love the GL shoot shizzle,just be carefull with hollow mono shooting lines, they ARE hollow after all. If you get a tangle be gentle about un doing the tangle, if you kink the line hard it will loose durability and can break quite easily when trying to pull your fly out of a snag. I know of a couple of people who have lost thier shooting heads because thier hollow mono line snapped when trying to pull out of a snag. I highly recomend staging your tippets properly according to the # designation of your hollow running line. Also even though dredging is totally un needed when it comes to steelhead , I would not reccomend hollow mono shooting lines for people who make it a habit of regularly dragging the bottom.Another thing to note is that because they are hollow the diameters are quite larger than standard mono shooting lines eg. 50lb rio slickshooter is MUCH thinner than 50lb guideline GL shoot. I have found the hollow lines in the 50# class are so thick it totaly mitigates the advantages of using a mono shooting line in that it has alot of surface area in the guides and doesnt shoot as well as something thinner. All this said I regularly use hollow mono shooting lines on all my 2 handed shooting head set-ups and enjoy them very much mainly because of the fact that they float where-as standard solid mono shooting lines sink. The main advantage of this is for the distance caster who holds so many loops that by the time 5 or more holding loops are formed a standard mono shooting line has sunk around your feet, sticks, rocks and other things littering the stream bottom.The average caster holding 1 to 3 holding loops probably will not notice this sinking effect as a smaller number of loops can be gathered much more quickly, most often more quickly than the line can sink. Becuase of this many people find that standard solid oval or flat mono shooting lines such as MRM, Slickshooter, or GL compline is just fine for them .

**Eric** · February 1st, 2008, 07:27 PM

i use gl shooter both the floater and the itermediate. Love em.
For the average caster out there i recommend the intermediate one because it does not kink, and will not coil, even in the cold temps, I am surprised at how supple it is for mono. It is even more supple then most running lines.