With an 8 wt line? Never for me, to buy a DT for the fishing I do, warmwater out of a float tube/pontoon boat.

Who wants to carry 70' in the air when you can shoot out the line from 30-40 feet, feeling the the head of the weight forward..where it tapers on the back side to the running line.

There must be some applications where a DT flyline would be preferable, but cannot think of any offhand. A bit of "cabin fever" this week , with cold and storms blowing through the southwest via the west coast (Calif getting smashed right now), but we get to fish all winter, even though the water gets a bit cold in the hills toward the international border.

That said, I will fish a wf 6wt Redfish line from Cortland locally..will fish pretty much anything I have handy that match the crazy rods I possess. Most of the lines fish fine, especially with the vintage glass...

And people make fun of me and my love for overweighted shooting heads to turn over certain big flies, yet then there's all this talk about carrying 70' of a DT which would probably amount to more weight than the shooting heads I normally fish.

It's all good though. Fish how you like, when you like, where you like and for what you like...I absolutely love fishing, this much I know.

I hope everyone has an excellent new year!

Wow 70' plus leader and tippet, your a better man then I.

Stealth is the most important skill catching fish.
Sparing casts and reading water.
Casting is over-rated, and part of the industry hype.
I mentioned on another page, the differences in WF and DT remain on the spool in normal stream fishing range.