I had one SA clear tip for poons many years ago (maybe 15yrs ago). Maybe caught 2 fish on it.
That being said, depending on what tarpon you are targeting and where they are, would depend on what lines you use, in my experience. Most of what I do requires a full intermediate, or a floating line. I have some flies that are near surface patterns, that we throw on shallow bars and require you to have a good floater to keep that fly high and happy. While other spots on deeper beaches, deeper flats and rivers that require the fly to get down to the level of the fish. Your fly better be happy riding at those depths too, otherwise, the fish will turn off on them.
With the intermediates, like Bob mention (Capt LeMay), you have to pull the majority of line in before you can re-cast it. But if you learn how to roll cast or do a " to Snap T" or another method I call the snake dance, where you wave the rod back and forth in a side to side action, to get the fly up to the top, then you can roll cast it out there to straighten out the line. At that point, the fly is now up on top of the surface and then you can just pick it up off the water, make a false case or two to line it up, then shoot it back out there.
I hate textured lines with a passion, but with some people, it's necessary to grip the line for those who don't far well with smooth lines. But hey, that's just my preferences. If my hands are full of sun screen grease, the fly line is so dressed, it's slippery and my stripping hand grip is loose on a strip set, then sure, the line will slip out of your hands. So I try to have some dish soap or bio soap to completely get all sunscreens and any bug stuff and greases off my hands, BEFORE I ever touch a fly or start to fish. If I dress the lines, I try to do that before I wash my hands and try not to over dress them.
I've probably caught more tarpon on a clear full intermediate line and try to keep 2-12wts rigged with a 1 clear int and 1 floater. Any 10wt I've ever had had always had a intermediate lines on it. Last year, I bought a 10wt floater for the 1st time in 20yrs just to have for shallow water mangrove tarpon with floating or near surface flies.
One of the other reasons I keep an intermediate line on it is because I use that rod for a multitude of other species, including cobia, big snook and a plethora of pelagics.
Ted