What is the best fly line you have ever used? Looking for floating and sinking .WT 3 thru 9.

Cortland 444 Classic fly line. I prefer the double taper for mending & roll casting. Ralph

If at first you don't succeed, go fishing, then try, try again.

i think it all depends on the type of water and style of fishing you do. you might want to add some detailed descriptions, fast running mountain stream, warm water, lake, salt, etc. at the moment my fave is rio's selective trout WF4F but i've liked their pocketwater and cortland's SYLK despite some odd characteristics of that line. i fish sierra streams for trout.

eric
fresno, ca.

Eric is right, there is no one fly line for every condition. Most fly shops in my area will have different lines strung up and will let a person test cast them, one reason to support your local fly shop.
I have about 10+ different fly lines and will change to a different line depending on where I am fishing and what I am fishing for. Here in Oregon I fly fish for trout, steelhead, bass both small & large mouth, salmon and a few other species and every situation usally requires a different line. I have switched to all Airflo lines because I like the way they cast and they have a 5 year no crack warranty, I do have a Cortland Sylk line on my Dan Craft Sig III 2 wt and it works very well on small streams for smaller rainbow and brown trout.

Bob
LaPine, OR

The 444 line is nice. I tried the new 555 but because it is very stiff it holds pigtails from the reel. Did not like it at all. Orvus trout line was the same - to stiff. The more flexible lines work and cast better IMHO.

Rio.

I'm a fly line fanatic. I'm always looking for a line that 1) will fish will up close, 2) will mend well (aerial or on the water), and 3) cast "out there" when I have to. I own about forty fly lines of various styles and weights. That said, I have recently found a line that outperforms all the others; it's the BEST flyline I have ever used: Orvis Wonderline Advantage (second generation, not the previous Wonderline). I own a long belly and double taper, and have cast the weight forward. All of them are superior lines in every regard.

BTW, I am not connected in any way to Orvis. This is just my opinion, based on 40+ years of flyfishing and trying line after line. I doubt that I will fish any other line from now on.

Wow! To each his own I guess. I found that for close-in casting, the Orvis had too long a front section to be much use. In all, if it didn't have 20 ft of line past the eye, it didn't go nowhere! All in all the distance casting was fine, but I found it was too much work for the smaller creeks I'm used to.

With that said, I really enjoy the Airflo lines. The shoot nicely, last a long time with little maintenance, and seem to float pretty high. One caveat to that is that they Poly lines seem to have pretty bad memory when they get cold.

-- Cheers
-- James