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Shooting Lines/Shooting Tapers System

Shooting Tapers

Floating Shooting Taper

Applications:

  • Gives your shooting line/shooting taper system the ideal characteristics for maximum distance casting
  • Great all-purpose taper with exceptional floatation

Taper characteristics:

  • Tapered to promote smooth turnover at long range
  • Shooting taper connects to small-diameter shooting line with loop-to-loop connection

Core:

  • Supple braided multifilament nylon

Coating:

  • Specially formulated 3M PVC integrated with patented AST – Advanced Shooting Technology

Colors:

Buckskin
Buckskin

Delivery: Moderate

Stiffness: Low

Matching Lines:

  • 9-wt and smaller taper:
    20 lb/.031" diameter line
  • 10-wt and larger taper:
    30 lb/.038" diameter line

Matching Leader:
Scientific Anglers™ Trout, Saltwater

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BULLETIN
(PDF 341K) for this product.

Deep Water Express™ Sinking Shooting Taper

Applications:

  • One of fly fishing's fastest-sinking shooting tapers
  • Quickly gets a fly 20' or deeper
  • Use full length or cut to match rod; includes cutting chart

Sink Rates:

  • 7.0-10.0 ips

Taper characteristics:

  • Tapered to promote good turnover at long range

Core:

  • Braided multifilament nylon

Coating:

  • 3M PVC integrated with powdered tungsten

Colors:

Gray
Gray (400-550 grn)

Brown
Brown (700 grn)

Black
Black (850 grn)

Delivery: Strong

Stiffness: Low

Matching Shooting Lines:

  • 400 gr - 850 gr:
    30 lb/.035" diameter int. shooting line
  • 400 gr - 850 gr:
    30 lb/.038" diameter fresh/float shoot. line
  • 400 gr - 850 gr:
    40 lb/.042" diameter salt/float shoot. line

Matching Leader:
Varies per sink rate.

Download an INFORMATION
BULLETIN
(PDF 393K) for this product.