![]() While I guess I could for winter-run fish, the right conditions seem far and few between. Personally, I dream all winter of being able to cast floating lines again. I could go on about their similarities and differences, but I think you get the point. Scandi appears to have more finesse and quieter presentations while Skagit looks more machine-like and is a workhorse for getting big flies deep. Scandi being the latter with an up-tempo casting stroke due to the longer/lighter line, while skagit is slow and more compact. The two lines are characteristically different by one thing- sustained anchor vs. Therefore, I like to think of them as more of a summer line when low and clear water allows us to fish smaller flies up top, as opposed to Skagit lines that effectively throw heavy sink tips and big flies. Both lines are highly versatile with the ability to swap heads and tips rather than whole lines, although Scandi lines generally require a tad more casting room and really excel at throwing smaller flies to ride at or near the surface. These lines more closely resembled traditional mid and long belly lines with their taper only in a shorter package, but like the Skagit lines are an interchangeable system. Meanwhile during this evolution, Scandi lines were being developed independently in you guessed it- Scandinavia. ![]() Skagit lines were born here in the Pacific Northwest, where casting traditional mid or long belly lines under a canopy of trees and in cover simply weren’t possible. Certainly Skagit and Scandi style Spey lines developed autonomously from one another and employ slightly different characteristics among Spey rods. When it comes to two-handed casting, RIO has been right there with each evolutionary step. ![]() Indeed, RIO Products is certainly an industry leader and always attempts to bring you the best products possible. Every year it seems fly line companies attempt to release the new “latest and greatest.” Nowadays fly lines are so tailored for rod action, purpose, and user preference that options abound. ![]()
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