HAYES Skyline - The Polaroiding Advantage


HAYES Skyline - The Polaroiding Advantage - $110 posted to you

Big fish and blue skies are the dream ingredients for sight fishing. Just like the Kiwis are emphatic that an olive line must be used  to blend in with the beech trees I am convinced that the skyline is 'THE POLAROIDING ADVANTAGE' for all Australian lake fishing.

Last winter I visited the USA on a working fly fishing holiday. How lucky am I. I spent a week at the Federation of Fly Fishers Conclave in Montana and whilst there I met Bruce Richards. Apart from being a nice guy and being perhaps the greatest technical caster on the planet, Bruce knows more about making fly lines than anyone else alive.

When I asked Bruce what the greatest advancement in fly line technology was over the past 33 years that he has worked for Scientific Anglers he thought for a moment then said. “ The manufacturing processes Peter". 

It is possible for us to sit here at my laptop and design a line for any fishing situation then send the data file over the internet directly to the machine in the factory where it will be made. We can go and try casting it this afternoon”

Wow….. that means we can easily make a line for the lake fishing in Tasmania and Australia generally ? “Of course we can” Bruce said. The Hayes Skyline was born on the picnic table that lunchtime.

Based on a GPX taper and weighted half a size heavier the SKYLINE will load rods at the shorter polaroiding distances that so often sight fishing dictates.

The line is sky blue in colour to better blend with the ambient light conditions of blue sky days and lake fishing environments. 

A welded loop on the leader end makes it easy to change leaders that is so often necessary for successful lake fishing.

Whilst the line is designed for blue sky polaroiding on the lakes of Tasmania and the Snowy Mountains I believe it is a more appropriate colour for any lake fishing situation that as Australian fly fishermen we do so much of. 

These lines have the revolutionary AST coating that makes them so slippery they will shoot into the next postcode.

Sure, if you are fishing in the beech forest rivers of New Zealand buy an olive line. Do yourself a favor and consider one of my HAYES SKYLINES  as your next lake fishing line.   

Contact me with a Visa or Mastercard number and expiry along with your postal address and I can send you one. Lines are available in 5 or 6 weights