it was a joke, or a segue to describing that Teeny T-series lines are in fact Not sink tips (mostly because you Can't make them hinge). But when I once Unsuggested T-200 as an appropriate choice for swinging wet flies to riffle water trout on small streams with small rods, it was You who internalized it. This is an activity I do with T-130 and BS-100 all the time, especially counting endemic bass as Texas brook trout.
I wasn't offended until you switched the topic to your opinions about Me. I do not intend to be the topic.
Here's fishing a T-200, in monsoon flows, on SB-469 7-wt cane
I also caught 200 bass this day - it was my dad counting.
also fishing T200 here, for white bass in a big flow year, on the left the same SB 7-wt, on the right a System 7.
While I've fished T-130 on Any 6-wt (of course 5-wt), my Izch S-glass 6/7, and even my RPLX-7, in general, T-200 is the best T-series line for a 7-wt rod.
I went through the exercise with the CGR 7/8, and found specifically that a T-130 would not load the rod to shoot, and T-200 loaded it perfectly.
The purpose of the exercise was to focus in and purchase this 210-gr salt floating line for for my salt-fishing niche with the CGR 7/8.
There's a spongey mid spot in the CGR 7/8 that makes it one of the most temperamental rods I've ever tried to line.
Though the spongey mid is only related to shooting line. In close, the rod seems to load and handle any line and any length leader.
The rod handled long front tapers Great in the air and for fishing close - clearly a very good rod for fishing close.
But it also shot best on lines with short front tapers - in fact, even the correct grain weight with a long front taper would not shoot on the CGR 7/8
(I have the 7-wt version of this line)
(this line does everything right on RPXL7, the long front taper improving close presentation)