Scientific Anglers Shooting Taper Type IV - ST-9-S

It's easy to customize your fishing approach with Scientific Anglers™ versatile Shooting Lines/Shooting Tapers System. The options are endless. Floating shooting lines with sinking shooting tapers. Sinking shooting lines with sinking shooting tapers. Floating shooting lines with floating shooting tapers. Add a full breadth of line weights and sink rates and you have the ability to tailor a line to every possible fly fishing opportunity.

Scientific Anglers™ Shooting Tapers have been designed and formulated to reach the highest level of performance and long-distance casting when matched with Scientific Anglers™ Shooting Lines.

Core and coatings feature the most advanced technology available and tapers are unsurpassed in functionality. Shooting tapers are usually attached to a shooting line with a loop-to-loop system.

Sinking Shooting Taper
Applications: Extremely long-range fishing at a variety of depths.
Thin diameter casts well in wind.
Sink Rate: 1.6-7.0 ips
Taper characteristics; Superior casting; short head for quick, long casts
Core: Single-strand monofilament nylon (Type I braided multifilament)
Coating: 3M PVC with powdered tungsten or glass beads
Delivery: Moderate
Stiffness:  Moderate
Matching Shooting Lines: 9-wt and smaller:20 lb/.030" - .031" diameter line
10-wt and larger:30 lb/.035" - .038" diameter line 

Fly Line Spec's:

• Manufacturer: Scientific Anglers  
• Shooting Taper WetCel Type IV 
• ST-9-S
• Length: 9m (35')
• Colour: Grey 
• Tip: 0.5'
• Front Taper: 4'
• Rear Taper: 1'
• Belly: 25'