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G'day all
I have a basic question. What method is most popular for connecting the leader to the fly line. I am using a striper (weight forward) intermediate line and i make my own leaders. I am making tapered leaders and i have been connecting them with an Albright? i think knot. eg make loop in the end of fly line pass end of leader through loop then wrap it back over the loop a dozen times back down through the front of the loop and pull tight.
I find this connection very bulky and not very secure, it seems to work its way loose. Is there a connecting knot that is simpler and nowhere near as bulky?
cheers
Michael ???
G'day Landy1,
The best way to join your leader to your fly line is a loop to loop connection.You can buy the loops already made,or you can make your own.
Any tackle shop that sells fly gear should be able to help you out.
hope this helps....Shawn.
p.s. What are you chasing with the tapered leaders?
G'day Justin,
Thats my 9/10,top reel.
But the 11/12 will have the advantage of even quicker line recovery and larger backing capacity.Which will come in handy when the longie has finished his first run, then turns around and runs straight back at you.
Most of us saltwater guys use braided loops at the both ends of our flylines. Easy to change flylines and leaders. Just make the loop in the backing large enough to pass the reel through.
Looks like the witchdoctor has found a new hobby in photography, i might be looking for a new boat partner for the bribie comp or maybe he's a little bored with all the wind on the week off. Serves all of you right while the rest of us are toiling away at work.
Cheers guys
I will sort out this line with a couple of braided loops then. Yep i picked up most of my fly knots etc from reading freshwater articles. Ive been experimenting with tapered leaders to see if there was any improvement in loop size for casting in amongst thesnags and under overhead vegetation but they seem to be more trouble than anything else think i will stick to keeping it simple.
Ah longtails. like all tuna they fly off with gills closed, as well as the mouth, and go like blazes until they run their blood pH well negative, then they stop and breath rapidly until the blood pH rises into the comfortable level, then they go again, and they keep this up for about 25 minutes, if you let them, until they have used up all of their red muscle energy and then thay just fold mostly. You can make them break this cycle if you chase them, flat out on the first run, and be about up their bum when they stop, that causes them to start going before they get set, which keeps their blood pH a a negative level, stress them out and they flop rather rapidly. Best catch under 4 minutes from take.
You need a rather quick boat and be well set to do a very quick start and go. Interesting fish though, they don't do the YFT or southern blue thing of deep circling, seem to prefer tp stay up near the top. All mine were in Shark Bay and shallow water. Cheerrs Max. Ps the Vortex looks nice but a Steelfin XFR is better, better made, cheaper price, 4.6 inches and really fast retrieve rate. LA thing.
Well most of the things we caught in those days ran to the 10kg mark, and I do not grab tunny by the tail, unless its with a very wet rag, towling.. The water was about 40 or so feet, you could see the bottom on a good day. We only went after them when the water was pretty flat, Shark Bay is a bloody awful hole mostly. We went about 17 miles north to the blows area, along Miaboola beach, and then followed the pods south. I used a 12# rod, nothing fancy, a Fenwick FF115 "E" glass thing, top stuff in 1970. Used heads and Micron backing. Flies were very small Deceivers, or Glass minnows, rather neat flies. Caught a lot over the years but never did land one off rocks, hooked a lot, some very big. I'd like to hang one off a rock now. Maybe it will happen, who knows. Cheers Max
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