S4 E3 How To Choose A Sink Tip 

Finally. As a novise in the two-handed world, mr gawesworth explained it all in 14 minuttes. Thank you rio for increasing my "un-confusion" phase....

Thank you for making sense on picking the right leader!

I know I am watching this 3 years later but I want to thank you and compliment you on your excellent ability to teach without a sense of areogance

excellent as always Simon! thanks a million

Gotta save this to my favourite list. tks for your tips

Extremely well-presented. Thank you.

Very helpful! Helps me to match tips to lines and flies better.

Thanks guys, very informative!

You read my mind! Just what I needed!

Thank you! I believe that for an Italian angler that understand not so good English it is better if you do a table excel or something... put on your website.

Thank you for your double haul videos, I’ve struggled with timing and shooting line on the back cast for many years, I think I may have cracked it at last with the aid of your simple videos. I would also appreciate any comments you can make regarding shooting heads. I live in Scotland and fish mainly still waters with a 10 foot Hardie’s Demon Sintrix 330 #6 rod. Several of the reservoirs I fish have high banks and bushes behind causing problems with back casts. I’ve been experimenting with single-handed spey casting but need some sort of scandi/skagit line to make it work. Being a true Scot, I am reluctant to spend quite a lot of my cash on a line which might not suit my rod (and Hardie have been singularly uncooperative) so I have been attempting to make my own by chopping different length bits off a #8 ‘mill end’ line and attaching them to a thin running line. I’ve had some success but it would be very helpful if I had some idea of where to start as regards length and weight of head to suit my rod (trial and error can get very tedious and probably doesn’t produce the best results). Have you any suggestions? I’d be prepared to spend the cash on a Rio line if I knew it would match my rod. Incidentally, I normally fish a floating line and swap leaders to suit conditions. Tom M

Good clear info from one of the best! Thanks Simon ...well done again mate.

great video, thankyou

Perfect, thanks for this great explication.

I want this video to be shown right behind stand with tips in my local fly fishing store. Meanwhile I need to fix all my lines and polyleaders combinations. Thank you!

A replacement tip on a Scandi is usually a terrible idea, unless that Scandi is a tipless Scandi Body head or the Scandi VersiTip, because a full Scandi already has a tip built into it, so in essence you are doubling the tip. Also, in the first Skagit GameChanger vid Simon says to use either the replacement tips or MOWs on them.

Thank you Simon.

Brilliant Simon.

Wow! Complex!

Thanks for the very interesting Präsentation, now i anderstand….👍

Great video

Awesome video! Thank you for producing it. I agree with you as long as we keep in mind that those leaders are all about mass to carry the fly forward and density which impact the sink rate then it is not as complicated. The fun part is using the right product to deliver the fly gently which sink at the right depth even when god the environment and the river does its best to prove you wrong. 😁😁😁😁

and he loves the tips

I have a Loomis nrx 10' #8 and use guideline 4D compact multitip system, depending if i use 12 gram (180 grain) or 14 gram (210 grain) float belly + tip 7 gram (105 grain) the total line weighs between 19 and 21 grams, i would like to try a skagit set up, should i use 300 grain or 275 grain belly? The rod does seem to be quickest with relative lighter weights, and should i use replacement tips or mow tips?

What would you do if you had a lighter skagit head of around 200 grains on a single handed rod but also a large fly and needed to get down quickly? Could you still use a T11 or T14 rather than a T8? cheers

Great help .If your setting up a scandi out fit must you take the weight of the polyleader into account or is that a skagit outfit

Hello Rio Please, on my Skagit Head grains, should I add the grains on the mow tips or T14 as well the replacement leaders for Scandi to match the grains window over my rod blank? Thank you!!

Boy are you right, this is complicated. Is there a chart somewhere that can be referred to for all this. If so, please point me in the right direction. Thank you

I'm trying to get a versatile set up for my 4wt trout spey to cover just about any condition. I have a scandi and skagit head but trying to figure out what tips I should have at my disposal. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Brock.

Hey @rioproducts what style/kind of heads to use with a #3 Skagit line for my #3 Trout Spey?

I have a question about lines, for bass in lakes. Say I’m fishing for suspended bass at 6-8 ft in 12 foot of water using a 7 weight rod and unweighted fly? Is the a chart that shows what to use?

So can we agree that for pure sink speed it goes like this : T-tips > MOW tips > versi-leaders?

Do you attach zinc lines to the backing or to the throwing line? And with what knot do you attach them? With which knot do you attach the tippet to the zinc line?? 🙏

Ok, now I know why I stay confused. You say that the replacement tips should be used with a scandi line...........everything I've heard before this has told me to use replacement tips with a skagit system and use versileaders with scandis. The replacement tips don't have different sections like some of the mows as far as i know, but I thought they were more like a mow that doesn't have weighted sections but is somewhat tapered on the end toward the fly. Can you see why I'm finding all tip stuff so confusing. Any guidance would be appreciated. Thank you.

But is a 8 scandi tip two heavy for an 8 weight scandi line

What does MOW stand for?

and he likes to get down

Well Now I know I wasted a few bucks on a t14 that I can't properly cast without a decent skagit line...

Four more armchair experts leaving their obnoxious jealousy fueled thumbs down, PATHETI!!