Some monos are cheaper, but not all. Also, my experience is that most flyline type running lines are more durable than most monos. OPST mono is very good, but not cheap. Many guys, for years and years, have used Trilene 50# Big Game line. It is much cheaper than the OPST and handles well until it starts getting pretty cold out. Not only does it get wiry then but I find it hard to handle with cold hands and/or gloves. Unfortunately, the near perfect solution has been off the market for about twenty years. I use the same 100' pieces of it for trout with a switch rod, steelies and salmon with a spey rod, and, believe it or not, sailfish with a big game fly rod. No point in talking further about it cause you just can't find it anymore. The closest is something that SA now distributes, but I can't recommend it as I've never used it. It's called a floating polyethelene mono running line. A couple of guides that used to use what I use that was discontinued feel this is the closest they've found. I've used lots of others over the years, but that wasn't the question posed by the OP.
That is first and foremost among my reasoning in recommending traditional integrated lines to people. Provided that a person purchases the correct grain weight for their rod the rest of setting up is pretty straight forward, put on some backing and spool up the line. By traditional lines I mean those with a vinyl coated runninng / shooting line fused right on the rear of the head.
Although I'm not familiar with Guideline rods being a 9/10 I'd hazard a guess we're looking at around 750 grains for a line. There are several forums where you may find many people who use this same rod and one is owned by us, that would be; The Salmon Fishing Forum The link should take you to the home page where you can register much the same way you did with us here. A quick scroll through the various sub forums will guide you as to where a thread may draw the best response.
Won't be fishing in really cold weather, I get vasospasms in my hands and feet so no chance there.
The rod surprises me then, I use a Sage One 31'6" rated as an 8 weight a lot, the rod casts like a dream with a 600 grain line. I also have a 15 foot Winston 7/8 - a Hardy Marksman 2T and a 14' Sage X that all use a 600 grain line like I described. When I say that the rod surprised me that's because being rated 9/10 and calling for a top end lighter than my 8 weights use seems strange.
Interesting Ard, when I looked at the equivalent grain weight for likes of Snowbee, Hardy etc 8/9 seems to be in the range for my rod but I think it is in the lower range if I use 8/9 wt line. As a beginner I didn't think I would be able to cast well with the lighter end of the range 9/10 is much heavier if I chose Snowbee or Hardy. Hence I bought the marginally heavier UST from SA which is 585 grains which is 9/10.
Ahh, great info there flav :thumbsup: So it would appear that the more experienced casters would go 8/9 and those less experienced or want more feel would go 9/10 Scandis. So now that is out the way, I need more info on the running line. Reading the Salmon Fishing Forum, I think it appears that I needed the 50lbs Mono rather than the 30lbs..... I also have a coated running line on the way.
