Several manufactures produce floating tips that can be attached to Skagit heads to produce floating head systems.
After experimenting extensively with factory and custom floating tips on a variety of Skagit Heads, I do not recommend this approach for the following reasons:
1. Since the tip becomes part of the head, one needs to reduce the weight of the Skagit head to compensate, so one may as well put on a Hybrid head.
2. Floating tips are often overpowered by a Skagit head, so the head system does not cast as smoothly as a Hybrid head, and presentation is nowhere as good.
3. Floating tips usually have thicker loops at the butt ends than sinking tips, resulting in loop-to-loop connections that stick in the guides when fighting fish.
Single hand Trout Spey : Getting started with a 9 ft 5wt rod |
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| + | Getting started |
| + | Rods and Skagit heads |
| + | Sink tips for Skagit heads |
| + | Tippet for Skagit heads |
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| + | Hybrid heads |
| + | Floating tips for Skagit heads |
| + | Running lines |
| + | Cost effective approach |
| + | Learning to Spey cast |
| + | A final word |
Single Hand Skagit - Science behind the magic |
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| + | Where it all began |
| + | Head design |
| + | Sink tips |
| + | Casting heavy sink tips |
| + | Running lines |
| + | Reels |
| + | Rods |
| + | Intermediate heads |
| + | Favourite outfits |
| + | Conclusions |
