Fly line recomendation

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The leader doesn't form solely the anchor.

For floating line fishing I like long bellies. You can cast well, then you can cover a lot of water with super long casts. However, if you don't long lines are PITA. One can control the line (and thus speed) of the line well - don't mend, mend upstream (slower speed) or down (faster speed). Unfortunately the rivers that would suit this are far and expensive for me.

Midbellies are a bit meh in my opinion. However they are really the longest line with which you can start using something sinking (by making the line multi-tip one).

I fish mostly sinking heads (or they have just a short part of the rear that floats). The weights are scandit (so between scandi and skagit) so I can easily use single spey or snap-T (or any other sustained anchor cast). Apart from the fastest sinking ones, I have cut and made loops to them to make them multi tip lines. So more easy variety. In fastest sinkers I like short heads as they are the easiest to control/they fish the best in my opinion.

I like mono shooting line. The biggest reasons are 1) with my technique coated ones tend to tangle around the blank and/or around the lowest stripping guide 2) the mono is thinner and thus with sinking heads easier to keep out of the water with minimum pull, easiest to "feed" to the sinking head and during swing they increase the speed the least (you can always increase speed by stripping, but the other way round it is difficult).