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The choices of sinking fly lines are "endless"
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There are a wide variety of sinking fly lines available. The degree of specialization in fly lines has evolved to the point where there is a line made for nearly each species of fish. This is good. This is bad. The good . . . Choice is good to have. The bad . . . This very benefit of choice in sinking lines, however, is often a luxury to most beginning fly fishers. They are a luxury because many beginners will not need them in order to get a proper start in fly fishing. And, many just getting started cannot justify sinking lines until they gain the experience necessary to make effective use of such lines. For most fly fishing in freshwater in the US and Canada, the average flyfisherman or woman getting started can do very well with just a floating fly line. Floating fly lines are by far the easiest to learn with. By adapting our flies, leaders and the front portion of a floating line with the addition of various forms of weight, we can gain the benefit of subsurface fishing without the use of a sinking line. When we must have a sinking line . . .
There will be many times when floating lines are of no use whatsoever. When sinking tip or full sinking lines will be the only way to fish if you want to get to where the fish are. This is immediately true if you begin your fly fishing career fishing for "big game" species, such as salmon, steelhead, stripers, billfish, etc. Or, any fishing that always requires fishing beneath the surface to reach the feeding level of the quarry necessitates the use of sinking lines. We suggest that you should use a floating line when first learning how to cast. If you use a sinking line starting out, it adds the element of having to deal with retrieving fly line you can't see because it is below the water's surface.
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