Knotted fly line leaders
 

I am looking for recipes for knotted fly line leaders . I intend to use fluorocarbon

fishing line .

Youtube has a lot of info on knotted leaders also if you just google you will find lots of info including charts and formulas.

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Just remember fluoro sinks. Not so good for dry flys

Or if indicator fishing, you don't want lots of fluoro between end of fly line and indicator (hard to pull up out of the water when setting the hook)

You'll see lots of leader formulas that suggest building the taper out of 5-7 lengths of various diameters. That's a lot of knots,,, doesn't need to be that complicated.

Build your leader out of 3 sections then add your tippet. The butt should be about 50 - 60 % of the total length before tippet,,, and then work down from there.

Lets say for a 6 wt fly line start with a 30 lb butt section, 5 feet long (60") long. The next section of 20 lb should be half as long again (30 "), followed by 15 inches of 12 - 15 lb. Now add a couple feet of tippet and you have a leader that is 10 1/2 - 11 feet long. That makes for a fairly general purpose leader.

Adjust the butt length accordingly if you want a longer or shorter leader. For heavier lines (8 wt plus) start with 40 lb and you might want to drop to a 25 lb butt for 4wt and less.

I like to loop the last section of the taper with a small double surgeons loop and loop the tippet as well creating a loop to loop connection for tippet to leader. This allows you to change tippets numerous times without affecting the leader configuration.

When building the leader, I like to use same brand for the 3 taper sections, ie, I have used maxima, ande, triple fish, hard mason and rio for mono leader materials,,,, and I really like seaguar FC blue label leader for fluorocarbon. Since I loop the tippet on, the tippet section can be any type of material as I do not need to worry about knot slippage with a loop to loop connection.

Make twisted leaders you only need one spool of line. Really easy to make.