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Spey Lines

The Advanced Flight Spey (AFS) Shooting Head is RIO’s latest line for the spey caster. These heads have a long front taper that ensures the softest of presentation and a design that loads rod up easily, resulting in extremely effortless casts of prodigious distances. They are a joy to cast and incredibly easy to get the feel of. For the very best in presentation and control attach one of RIO’s Spey VersiLeaders to the front end that have been designed specifically to compliment these lines and one of RIO's highly acclaimed shooting lines to the back end.

The AFS head is available in four different formats: 1) A floating version that is available in a choice of two colors: a) a subtle green color that will not spook fish in the clearest of water, but that has a 10 ft (3 m) yellow back section to aid the angler in seeing how the line fishes and b) a bright steelhead orange - perfect for low light conditions and rivers like the Deschutes with canyon sides- it's also the perfect color for teaching and learning with.

2) A floating head with a 15 ft intermediate tip
3) A slow sinking (hover) head with a sink rate of 1" per second
4) A fast sinking type 4 full sinking head with a sink rate of 4-5" per second.

Each head has RIO’s bullet-proof welded loops in both ends for easy rigging and to attach one of RIO’s VersiLeaders to.

Floating: Sizes: 4/5 to 10/11; Length: 31 ft (9.5 m) to 42 ft (12.8 m); Color: Green/Yellow and Steelhead Orange (5/6 to 8/9)
Intermediate Tip: Sizes: 7/8 to 10/11; Length: 37 ft (11.2 m) to 42 ft (12.8 m); Color: Yellow with translucent tip
Hover (S1): Sizes: 7/8 to 10/11; Length: 37 ft (11.2 m) to 42 ft (12.8 m); Color: Glacial
Sink 4 (S4): Sizes: 7/8 to 10/11; Length: 37 ft (11.2 m) to 42 ft (12.8 m); Color: Midnight Blue

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The AFS OutBound has a similar taper design to the AFS shooting head but the body continues seamlessly into a thin, floating shooting line of 0.030" diameter. It is ideal for those that don’t want a connection between the head and the shooting line.

Sizes: 4/5 to 10/11F

Length: 120 ft
Color: Green/Yellow shooting line with black loading point.

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The original spey line, frequently imitated, never bettered. It has an easy loading head between 45 ft – 56 ft (depending on the size) and is the most versatile of all spey lines. The WindCutter is available as a full floating line with a welded loop at the front end for attaching RIO’s Powerflex core leaders or as a VersiTip option and is yellow with a black “loading point” that shows the angler where the rod has its optimum load. The VersiTip line features RIO’s thin, non-hinging welded loops and includes a body section, a floating and an intermediate Tip 2 compensator, a 15 ft (4.6m) floating, a clear intermediate (1.5 ips, 4 cm/s), a DC Type 3 (3ips, 8 cm/s), a DC Type 6 (6 ips, 15 cm/s) and a DC Type 8 (8 ips, 20 cm/s) sinking tip. The WWF 5/6 does not include Tip 2 or a Type 8 tip. The 4/5 is only available as a floating line.

Sizes: 4/5 (S5), 5/6 (S6), 6/7/8 (S7), 7/8/9 (S8), 8/9/10 (S9), 9/10/11 (S10) & 10/11/12 (S11)

Length: 110 ft - 140 ft (33.5 m - 42.7 m)
Color: Yellow with black loading point

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The PowerSpey is for those casters that prefer a longer belly line. A unique taper design makes this an incredibly easy line to spey cast with - at any length - and traditional anglers will love the longer head length for precise fly control and efficient casting. The head varies between 57 ft and 71 ft (depending on the size) and the front taper is perfect for light presentation, yet carries enough power to turn over the largest of flies and cope with unfriendly winds. The floating line has a welded loop in the front end for easy rigging.

The PowerSpey VersiTip features RIO’s thin, non-hinging welded loops and includes a body section, a 15 ft (4.6m) floating, a clear intermediate (1.5 ips, 4 cm/s), a DC Type 3 (3ips, 8 cm/s), a DC Type 6 (6 ips, 15 cm/s) and a DC Type 8 (8 ips, 20 cm/s) sinking tip.

Sizes: 5/6 (M6), 6/7 (M7, 7/8 (M8) 8/9 (M9), 9/10 (M10) and 10/11 (M11)

Length: 110 ft to 130 ft
Color: Lemon Green with black loading point.

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Skagit casting requires a line with a very short, 25-27 ft (7.6-8.3 m), heavy head that will propel heavy sink tips and big flies great distances with a very short casting stroke. Skagit casting is easy for novice or experienced casters to learn and exceptionally useful in situations with tight, restricted back casting space.

Skagit lines have a revolutionary design that is perfect for Skagit casting. Available either as a body only, to which you attach one of RIO’s 15 ft tips, T-8, T-11 or T-14, or as a VersiTip model that comes packaged with a shooting head wallet, a 5 ft cheater and a 15 ft DC Type 6 (6 ips, 15 cm/s) and a DC Type 8 (8 ips, 20 cm/s) sinking tip.

Skagit Line: Sizes: 300 gr, 350 gr, 400 gr, 450 gr, 500 gr, 550 gr, 600 gr, 650 gr 700 gr and 750 gr
Length: 120 ft (36.5 m)
Color: Yellow with black loading point.

Skagit VersiTip: Sizes: 450 gr, 550 gr, 650 gr or 750 gr
Length: 120 ft (36.5 m) Color: Yellow with black loading point.

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A head version of the popular Skagit tips line. Just attach your favorite SlickShooter or Powerflex core shooting line to the back end and the necessary sink tip to the front end and launch some bombs.

Sizes: 450, 550, 650 & 750 grain

Length: 27 ft
Color: Yellow

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Skagit casting requires that the head length of the line is 3 to 3.5 times the length of the rod. Add a Skagit cheater to RIO’s Skagit line or Skagit head to maintain this ratio.

Skagit Cheaters are short extension sections to add to Skagit lines to help maintain a comfortable casting stroke. These sections go between the front of the Skagit line and the required tip. Available in two formats:
1) A single 5 ft floating cheater
2) A cheaters pack of four sections; a 2 ½ ft, a 5 ft and a 7 ½ ft floating section and a 5 ft intermediate section

Sizes: 6/7/8 for 300 - 350 Skagit lines
7/8/9 for 350 - 450 Skagit lines
8/9/10 for 450 - 550 Skagit lines
9/10/11 for 550 - 650 Skagit lines
10/11/12 for 650 - 750 Skagit line

Color: Yellow – floating, Gray – intermediate

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This 15 ft floating tip is the ideal addition to the Skagit tips line for greased line and dry fly fishing. Also a good replacement for the WindCutter floating Tip 1.

Sizes: #7 (300 - 400 gr lines)
#8 (400 - 500 gr lines)
#9 (500 - 600 gr lines)
#10 (550 - 650 gr lines)
#11 (600 - 650 gr lines)
#12 (650 - 750 gr lines)

Color: Yellow
 

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