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    im new to fly fishing and jumped in with both to a big chunk of water, back bays and the ocean. ive got a st croix 9ft 9wt with a pflueger trion 1990 reel, 1 spool floating 1 spool 225gr, and an intermediate line i can put on, need another spool.

    ive been using flourocarbon for leaders, either 5-9ft 15lb or 30lb, depending if blues were around. would it be advantageous to switch to a furled leader. they look interesting and i thought they might help my cast turn over quicker. i was thinking of trying to make some out of 6lb power pro, and some from 1lb mono, looking for a strenght just above my leaders. proble a 6ft with 2ft of flouro.

    flys are attached with a no slip loop. all lines have loops in thier ends for quick change of leaders. leader has a double surgeon on line end.

    im typically casting @ 50' at the moment and the leader sometimes bunches at the end.
    i think that about covers it. is that too much info? or did i miss something?

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    Are you having fun? If so, you didn't miss anything critical.

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    To be honest, with saltwater I am as apt to use a piece of straight mono as a fancy leader.

    jed

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    What Jed said...

    What Stev said...

    When I'm redfishing or sea trout fishing, I use straight eight pound with an 18" 20 lb. shock leader on the fly end.

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    mdram................
    "the leader sometimes bunches at the end"
    You might be trying to cast a little too smooth without a fast enough STOP on the forward cast. This would cause the leader to loose momentum and bunch up at the end of the cast.
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    I find fishing the salt my leaders get chewed up and knicked a lot sooner than in fresh water, lots of wind knots. Most of the time I use a straight piece of mono, 14lb flourocarbon but if the wind is stong and the fly is really light or wind resistant I will use a two piece tapered leader 30 bloodknotted to 14 to get the fly to turnover better.

    Sometimes I will go through 2-3 leaders an outing. It is easier just carrying one or two mono spools in the kayak and cutting to length as needed. There is nothing worse than farting with a leader and keeping the yak pointing strait in the surf while fish are breaking around you, like I had last week.

    A furled leader sounds too complicated to construct and go through a few in a trip.

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    The lighter & smaller the fly: the longer the leader. The heavier & larger the fly: the shorter the leader, just as in matching the fly size to the flyline in trout fishing. Still a general rule of thumb that works in the salt!

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    oh yeah im having fun!

    guess i'll hit the backyard and practise some more on the casting.

    i was thinking of making the leaders in the garage beforehand, but always carry my floura too.
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    Princess Anne, Md

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    FWIW, in salt, I tend to stay with a 5-6 foot furled fc leader and about three feet of fc tippet. By the end of most day's fishing I'm ready to bend on a new tippet.

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    do you make your own?
    what strnght are they made from?
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    Princess Anne, Md

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