RIO LightLine has been around for over fifteen years, and honestly, it's my top synthetic line that I use not only on my bamboo and glass rods but also on my moderate-action graphite rods, like Winston Pure 2 rods.  My favorite silk line by Terenzio, out of Italy, is the standard line I use to test all my bamboo rod tapers, as well as the RIO LightLine. RIO nailed this line upon its inception in 2015, winning the IFTD “Best New Fly Line” award just before launch. I am a LightLine junkie primarily because of the application and niche it fills. I would categorize this line as a technical line for a few reasons; the manufacturer may not, but I do. The first is that it is extremely quiet. By quiet, I mean if you are fishing in gin-clear shallow water, which I do most of the time, its suppleness and ”splashdown rate,” for lack of better words, allows it to land much more softly than a general-purpose line. “General purpose” fly lines come in a little hotter, like a jet as opposed to a g...