Rio Skagit Cheaters

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Skagit Cheaters   Skagit Cheater Pack     Single 5' Cheaters
The Skagit River style of two-hand fly rod casting evolved as a method for presenting very large/weighted flies "broad side dead drifted" deep in the  
currents of large Pacific Coast steelhead rivers.  The main developers and champions of this type of presentation Ed Ward, Marlow Bumpus, Mike Kinney, Scott O'Donnell & Mike McKune; all anglers who spent much of their formative years in steelhead fishing in Northwestern Washington.  They developed specialized sinking tip fly lines which are made with short, heavy heads and fine running line.  A wide range of casts are employed using a fairly slow stroke and increased contact with the water during the rod loading process. The cheaters are made to lengthen and fine tune Rio's popular Skagit series of lines or shorten and fin tune interchangeable tip WindCutter lines 
into "Skagit Heads". To fine tune a WindCutter simply replace Tip2 from the WindCutter with the appropriate Cheater and then either attach Tip 1 or 8'-13' of T-14, T11 or T-8 for the perfect Skagit head. The Skagit Cheater Pack for 2008 contains: one each 2.5', 5' and 7.5' floating Cheater and a 5' intermediate density Cheater per package (4-pc.total). Single 5' Cheaters are also packaged individually to save you money.
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21613 6/7/8 RIO Skagit Cheater Set 6-7-8, contains one each 2.5', 5' and 7.5' floating Cheater and a 5' intermediate density Cheater $44.95
21614 7/8/9 RIO Skagit Cheater Set 7-8-9, contains one each 2.5', 5' and 7.5' floating Cheater and a 5' intermediate density Cheater $44.95
21615 8/9/10 RIO Skagit Cheater Set 8-9-10, contains one each 2.5', 5' and 7.5' floating Cheater and a 5' intermediate density Cheater $44.95
21616 9/10/11 RIO Skagit Cheater Set 9-10-11, contains one each 2.5', 5' and 7.5' floating Cheater and a 5' intermediate density Cheater $44.95
21617 10/11/12 RIO Skagit Cheater Set 10-11-12, contains one each 2.5', 5' and 7.5' floating Cheater and a 5' intermediate density Cheater $44.95

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21607 6/7/8 Single 5-foot RIO Skagit Cheater $11.95

21608 7/8/9 Single 5-foot RIO Skagit Cheater $11.95

21609 8/9/10 Single 5-foot RIO Skagit Cheater $11.95

21610 9/10/11 Single 5-foot RIO Skagit Cheater $11.95

21611 10/11/12 Single 5-foot RIO Skagit Cheater $11.95


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