Happy Turkey Day to all!
I am looking to all you for your years of experience and knowledge, even though I’ve been out on the streams for over 20yrs.
I want to tie my own leaders, and with all the brands and materials, I wanted to know for those that do this, what your formulas are. Not in regards to 24” of 01x then 12” of 1x, I found that information, but more so on which materials and brands. I am a teacher, so even though money is a factor, I don’t believe in skimping on leaders and tippets for obvious reasons, (don’t want to buy the lowest quality material for the weakest link in the line).
FYI, There are some interesting excel spreadsheet online you can download, in which you plug in your leader length and down to what size you want to want to fish with, and it gives you the measurements for each section for different dry fly, nymph and streamer lengths, and even the parameter of what size rod you are using.
This is what I have been thinking:
For the bigger stuff, towards the butt section, 07X to 0X I was thinking on mono, but what brand do you guys and gals use for proper stiffness?
For the mid section, 0X to 3x, using fluorocarbon, but a stiffer one, like climax or umpqua.
Then for the end to tippet using something like Frog Hair, which I haven’t used, but I’ve read is strong and very flexible. Which is why I wouldn’t want to use it towards the butts/tag sections, because of a lack of backbone.
If this information has been discussed previously, please point me to those links. The search does not seem to be working with the new site format.
THANKS TO ALL who would like give their input!
Cheers,
Pound
edit: here is the leader calc I was referring to. In the drop down boxes, pick leader length, tippet size and rod wt, the rest will be done for you.
http://glo...er/leadercalc/lc2007.xls
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