As a beginner I need a little advice please. Out today at a local stillwater fishing a Snowbee WF 6wt floating line with loop connector and tapered leader. I had 2 x buzzers and a diawl bach on. After casting the line was in the water only for only 20-30 secs when I noticed the tip of the floating line sinking over the first 4 feet or so. Is this right or am I doing something wrong? The line is new - 3/4 weeks old and only cast on one previous outing before the recent bad weather.
Still worked though - caught and released 2

Heavy flies will pull the tip under, and I've not found any floater that doesn't start to sink. If water gets into the core of the line, it will soak through and consequently, start to sink. The best cure for this is a tiny drop of epoxy resin to seal the end of the line and some silicon mucilin to grease it up.

Check your braided leader chances are it will be split? The inner core takes water your line will sink

They all do it despite the sales blurb to the contrary. The cross section of the line at the tip end is obviously finer than back in the belly, so there is less to support it. Keep the line as clean as you can, treat it with one or other of the proprietary floatants and press on. Of course, if you are one of the "saw the half-inch twitch on the line tip at forty metres" types that we hear so much about but somehow never actually see, you'll spend most of your fishing time cleaning and re-treating your line. The rest of us mere mortals just get on with it.

I agree, if we all started taking floating line manufacturers to court regarding their products not doing what it says on the box they would be out of business very quickly.

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If i was fishing 2 buzzers and a diawl bach i would expect my floater to sit high and not sink either!
I personally would do away with the braided loop as its heavy and add plenty mucilin to my line.
Just my thoughts anyway.........................

If i was fishing that cast i would expect my tip to sink especially if i was using fluorocarbon, though not that quickly,try it with a nylon leader greased up and if the line is still sinking contact snowbee.

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Thanks for all the help. I'll check up on those things recommended.
Cheers, everyone
Ken

How long should a line last? Say if you fished once a week,using the same line.Do the Manf. do any tests ?

Wear Targets on floaters generally accepted by Manufacturers around 40 full fishing days .

That is with a PVC cover on an N66 core .

The killer is cold cracking so when you see those little dark lines it is time for a new one .

Sinkers - only change when the coating starts coming away from the core .
Polyurethanes will last longer but they don't feel so good !

Floating flylines are a bit like golf balls - they don't last for ever - if they did you wouldn't like to fish with them much .

Many years ago I was taught by Arthur Cove
i) To use a metre of 20lb nylon needle knotted through the core at the flyline tip
ii) To grease the last 6 feet of the flyline
iii) To expect it to start to sink a little if using the Cove Approach - size 8 Cove PT on the point and a couple of buzzers on the droppers and a 20' leader- a 5 minute settle before starting the retrieve .

It is the lightest effective line/leader jointing system - but by no means the most convenient to set up .

And on a point of information - Arthur could see the very tip and he rarely fished for more than 2 hours without a break the concentration gave him whanging headaches ( that and the Woodbines ) -

I never could see it either though - but my long range vision has been **** all my life ! ( And you can take that any way you want to! )

Steve Parton