Product Overview
10ft Commando Tips
Presenting your fly at the depth where fish are holding is one of the most important factors in successful fishing. 10ft Commando Tips are ideal for making swung fly presentations to steelhead and salmon. It's a fact that not every run calls for the fastest, heaviest sink tip. Riffles and shallower runs can be just as important as deep holes, especially in high water. In such conditions, a shallower, yet still level, sink is the way to go. Commando Tips will make you a more complete angler by allowing you to choose, within a set grain weight, from between three different sink rates: Riffle, Run and Bucket, for shallow, medium and deep water, respectively. For the 80 grain tips, Riffle corresponds to S2, Run to S4 and Bucket to S6. For the 110 and 140 grain tips, Riffle is S3, Run is S6 and Bucket is S9.
OPST 12’ Tips
Rounding out OPST's tip selection are the 12’ Dual Density Commando Sink Tips. These are best on 5wt rods and up that are 12’ to around 14’ in length. The 12’ 96 grain will work on the Trout Spey rods that are 4wt to 6wt and above 11’6”. The 12’ 132 grain will work on your 6wt and 7wt rods above 11’6”, and the 12’ 168 grain will fit your 7wt through 9wt rods 12’ and above. These tips are dual density, meaning the rear half of the tip sinks 1 inch per second slower than the front half, allowing for a straighter connection to the fly. So whether you have a 12’ 5wt or a 13’ 8wt, we have a tip for your setup!
