If you full Weight Forward (WF) fly line has started cracking in the transition between the head an the running part, consider converting it to a shooting head.
Cut the line in front of the cracked part (when seen from the reel) and splice an eye on the braided core in the back end of the line. Attach this to a shooting line, and you have a shooting head which will probably work well with a rod, which is a class or two lighter than the original line weight.
If your shooting head is too heavy or too long, trim off part of the front taper and carefully trim the line in the thick back end until it reaches a length as weight, which suits the rod.
Shooting heads are great for distance casting and carrying larger flies on lighter rods.
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