Help Needed Identifying Sinking Tip

It weighs approximately 77 grains if I applied the formula correctly. At 15 feet, that's about 5 grains per foot; probably a T-6 tip. It could be one someone else built and welded tips on, however and that's not unheard of.

I know the tips that came with my Rio versitip line looked like that. Mine were 95gr each so yours might be the 5 or 6wt version (1 gram = 15.4324 grains)? although they also were color coded and I don't recall seeing white in there. I think I also have a couple of 15' versileaders that I had purchased separately as well. I'll double-check, but I think one of them was white. might be worth checking out Rio's color coding scheme.

or, what Steve said.

I just went through this a bit with a tip wallet I've had for quite some time. I simply filled a container with about 12 inches of water and dropped two tips at a time in it comparing their actual sink rate. I had more than enough tips that were known for comparison, so I was able to figure out what the few unknowns were.

Look at the tip. Does it have a few white bands on it. It's been so long since I used my Versi-tip from Rio I forgot what each band meant.

Old Man said:

Look at the tip. Does it have a few white bands on it. It's been so long since I used my Versi-tip from Rio I forgot what each band meant.

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From most mfgrs.; wide bands = 5, narrow bands = l.