I wasn't even trying to do that.
There are so many ways to use these lines. Down and across wet fly swings, high stick, drop the rod tip into the water.
When we're talking about wet flies, I hate to see somebody go out and buy a T200 and then not like it because it doesn't work for this like a T130 on a 6-wt. or BS100 on a 4-wt.

I was going on the riffle water part, where I love using these lines.
and this

I hike down a flagstone shelf, roll-cast, swing, roll-cast swing over riffles and dolomite ruts, doing nothing else, and little bass impale themselves.
I caught 70 fish that way on a fall bite a few years ago.

Clarkman, actually I intend to fish with these on my 5 wt using the BS-100 as well. Clockwise from the top; Wooly B (6), unweighted Slump Buster (8), Garthside soft hackle (4)



I'm confident that on my particular waters this line is going to perform. I perhaps may not, but I'm willing to take my chances I'll let y'all know how it turns out!


Huskey, according the specs on Jim Teeny's site the BS-100 has a sink rate of 3.75" per second and the T-130 is 4.00" per second. A negligible difference.

Joe

can't go wrong with that little slumpbuster...

I use a double nail knot on my TS250 (and slime line) in the salt, because the drying salt crust will pull this joint apart.
But nothing slides over the rocks better, and I've had zap splices in my freshwater Teeny lines last me 4-5 years, just keeping up with tippet additions (splicing in a piece of 3x and/or 1x as needed).
I do a lot of bottom bouncing with this rig and I bet in 30 years of fishing them I've had 2 leaders pull out. I've stuck and broken off flies at the first knot, but this rig works (tailwater stripers at 450 cfs).

I could have used the sinking lines today fishing unweighted wooly buggers. It took forever for the fly to sink deep enough to where the fish were. That being said, are unweighted fly better to use with sink lines or bead head/ chain eyes. Cats's whiskers seems like it would be too heavy given eyes and water logged Marabou and arctic fox for the bs100.

A Teeny BS100 sinks faster than a cats whisker and will bring the fly along behind it.
It makes a beautifully neutral rig both for casting and stripping, and will bottom bounce just fine (this happens to be a T130, but no significant difference between the two lines other than head length).

there are several spots in my tailwater where creeping streamer on the bottom, fished the same way I would target white bass harems, will bring to hand some honking rainbows. Like white bass, they will often follow the fly and pick it up when it's at rest on the bottom.

I would consider the cats whisker a streamer.

Lure? Curious, is it the chain eyes being metal? If so, as an extension of that thought would a bead nymph count as a lure, technically.

To not derail the topic too much, do you use a nymph with the bs100? edit: nevermind, just saw the photo with the trout with nymph.

again, technically, a woolly bugger is classified as a lure.

I'm not real big on flies, I'm more on technique. Fly fishing 40 years, I've pared my fly choices down to a handful.
Coldwater, I'll usually fish first with a floating line, sometimes dead drifting with an indicator, but more often dead drift and swing without an indicator.

I know every BWO and caddish hatch in 8 miles of my tailwater, and go out of my way to fish them.

In warmwater, I fish 3 flies always with a Teeny line.
I always bring a floating line and sliders, but most often don't use this

This particular morning we could see big bass moving out of a huge deep hole to feed on a shelf, so switched to floating line with slider to move down and ambush them - usually here we're on the shelf and fishing into the hole with a Teeny line, counting down before we strip.

Always in coldwater, I also bring a Teeny line. There are some places I'll rig it first. I use the same 3 flies as warmwater, and also add soft hackle wet flies.

In wide spots with chert bottom in the tailwater, I'll use my creeping bottom bounce with a whistler or cats whisker - places I'm more apt to drag up a leaf rather than hang a rock.

A common technique with the Teeny to get down close is cast up and high stick, dead drifting to get down, then swing. The target water is the swing, but the high stick can still take fish on the dead drift. I've caught some honking carp with a cats whisker on the dead drift, rainbows and bass as well.
But the choice for the Teeny in coldwater is across, drift to get down and swing, or just down and across swings.

This big hole after the tailout at Rockytop is a great place to fish streamers straight down the current - shoot for those rocks on the far bank - what you don't see is a creek mouth on the right - if I fish this hole, I will rig the Teeny I brought along (otherwise, I'll make the bend to the next chute and BWO hatch)


tailwater piggie as I described just above
here's my buddy Ewell with another piggie at the tailout of the same hole (left of the photo above)


BTW, sight-fishing in clear water on flagstone bottom, you really see the result of bottom bouncing - the fly makes a mud ball along the bottom. i've seen big bass chasing the fly and pounding the side of their head on the bottom, strike after strike on the mudball.

Aurelio,

I did about 75% of my fishing quartering down stream. The other 25% ish was casting up and across, dead drifting then swinging.

The leader is the Teeny 4' 8lb sinking leader with about 18" of 2x mono for the larger flies then I spliced another foot or so of 4x on for the smaller flies.

This is great and very informative 95% of my fishing is done upstream on small shallow creeks and use only floating lines but on bigger water like the conejos I do run into deep long pools but don't want to carry an extra reel or spool with a sink tip line.Years ago I seen some full sink leaders and was wondering if any of you guys tried them with any success .....thanks aurelio