Whaddya think of the Mastery Series lines?

[Riverkeeper]

Recently I was in a fly shop that I don't really like but is near my office, and needed a line for a new loomis rod I had just finished building :dance: . "Ohhhh, you gotta try this new Scientific Anglers Mastery series- SMOOTH!" they said. Ok, I thought, I just built this rod so maybe I'll spring for the fancy line- besides, the painting on the box is nice so it must fish well. So I walk out of the store with a box of DT-5-F plastic string in my pocket where $60 used to be.

Anyhow, I got to the river, and I'll be darned if I didn't hate that line. Specifically, the finish was awful. I could feel the friction of it sliding against the guides as I cast, and it didn't shoot hardly at all. Also, at the end of the day, the index finger of my hand was burned from where I was stripping in the line against it.

Who has experience with these lines. Anyone else find the sam thing? Did I just get a lemon? :whazzup:

By the way, I don't think S.Anglers is an Ifish sponsor, but my name is DARIAN and I'm not trying to trash anyone, just get some opinions.

[ 09-20-2003, 06:10 PM: Message edited by: Riverkeeper ]

[Stew]

Too bad about your bad experience with SA fly lines. I have not tried the Mastery Series but can recommend the Orvis Wonderline fly lines. The are so smooth that they just seems to cast better.

[Steve L.]

I've been pretty partial to the wf5f and wf7f steelhead taper for my rods. I tried the DT5f and didn't care for it either. the others have casted and mended well. I played with the wf7s this last winter, but the jury is still out on it. I just bought my second wf5f, I got three busy years out of the first one. I fish the wilson alot so my lines make a lot of contact with rocks.
Both my rods are relatively fast action.
what type of action is your new rod ?

Cheers

[tangled]

I have the mastery steelhead wf 8 and it has worked just fine for my 8 weight winter rod- you may have gotten an old line, or something else that would make it a "lemon." For my summer steelhead rod I use a floating line made by Dennis Dickson, it shoots real nice - and for my trout rod I just use Cortland 444 wf on a st. croix ultra. I have never tossed a fly and said this line sucks, so your reaction leads me to believe that you got a defect.

[Riverkeeper]

the rod is a GL3 which I guess is a medium action.