spey line /flyline ???

fish slapped

lads can some one tell me the difference between a 9wt floating fly line and a 9wt floating spey line any help would be appreciated.

Auldloon

Can you be a bit more specific. A spey line is a flyline so to answer your question they are the same thing

dardevle

in simple terms the 9wt floating is for a single handed rod and the speyline is for twohanded(speycasting).

coolwings

A spey cast is a roll cast, and it requires the weight of the line to be spread all along the line. So a "spey line" can never be a forward taper, or a shooting head.
A level line would be a bad spey line also.

Usually a double taper is used for spey casting, but a single taper would also do the job. So either of these could be called a spey line.

(But that is before you decide on the line weight number, floating, sink tip, or sinking.)

fish slapped

coolwings wrote: »

A spey cast is a roll cast, and it requires the weight of the line to be spread all along the line. So a "spey line" can never be a forward taper, or a shooting head.
A level line would be a bad spey line also.

Usually a double taper is used for spey casting, but a single taper would also do the job. So either of these could be called a spey line.

(But that is before you decide on the line weight number, floating, sink tip, or sinking.)

thanks coolwings , so a 9wt floating dt could be used to spey cast:)???:confused:

coolwings

fish slapped wrote: »

thanks coolwings , so a 9wt floating dt could be used to spey cast:)???:confused:

Yes. Provided the rod was rated for a 9 (eg 8-9, or 9-10 rod) it would do the job nicely.

fish slapped

thanks man that helps a lot.