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Ronan's report

I bought a new sharkskin line this week, for no very good reason other than that it popped into my field of vision at a point when I happened to be holding a credit card. There's been a lot of discussion about these lines, not least because they make a very distinctive and occasionally unsettling noise, both through the air and through the rod rings. But they've also been getting great reviews for their combination of distance, presentation and flotation, all of which sounded pretty good to a bloke who regularly struggles with all three at some point in a typical fishing season.

It's early days yet and I haven't reached any firm conclusions on the Ultimate Trout version of this line. Suffice to say that so far, it seems to do exactly what it says on the tin. I've been particularly impressed with the distance/presentation combo, although how well this survives on a windy spring day with a three-fly setup remains to be seen. I'm also slightly concerned by the sandpapery feel caused by the microtextured surface; apparently what gives the line its better flotation and reduced drag, but which also seems more or less guaranteed to strip all the flesh from my fingers over the course of a typically long and brutal summer's day on the reservoirs.

I'll report back on this in due course. Of rather more concern to me at the moment is how I integrate yet another bloody line into my fishing life. I already own five floating 6-weight lines (SA GPX and XPS; Rio Gold, midge-tip and Nymph), partly because I'm just curious about how different lines perform on the same rods and partly because like most anglers I really do need different lines for different jobs. I've also got the usual slime line, standard intermediate and Di-7 sinker too. So in all, I now have nine lines in 6-weight alone – and don't even get me started on the other weights. Unfortunately, I only have four spools to store them on, thanks to the criminal and horrific cost of spare spools for most fishing reels; the rest live in various untidy states of storage, a situation I'm determined to fix ASAP.

The question is: how? This seems like a job for a line-winder, but which one? And is there a more elegant solution to the problem? Answers, please, on the board...

Sean

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