furled leaders

[Garic]

Just a question about furled leaders, are they worth the money to buy/effort to make?

I fish for trout, dry fly mostly if at all possible.

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Born to fish, forced to work.

[kengore]

I love them. I experimented with ones made frm tying thread, tipet material and even silk sewing thread. The ones made from UNI 6/0 thread work the best for me (trout) They last an entire season and then some with a few changes of the tippet. I tried to convince some og my fishing buddies but they prefer the knotless leaders. I guess it's to each his own...

I make my own and can get three 9' leaders from a single 2 dollar spool of thread. The jig set up cost about 5 bucks worth of scrap wood. I can build furled leaders much faster than hand tied leaders. They don't cost me very much more than time....

The only time I don't use them is for nymphing on streams where I need to adjust the leader length ot depth often. Then it's easier and faster to cut into a knotless mono leader.

[Garic]

is there anywhere on the net that explains how this is done?

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Born to fish, forced to work.

[hoosierhackler]

There are several how to sites on the web by googling furled leaders. JWW

[bassman]

Contact Kathy Scott, she makes real nice one's and she also has a perfect How To CD. John
[url=http://home.comcast.net/~bassman540/johnsfliesandswaps.html:d7d56]http://home.comcast.net/~bassman540/johnsfliesandswaps.html[/url:d7d56]

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I wish you all everlasting flies and tight lines.

[Blaino]

Intersting.. never heard of them before until today... now that I have read that article 3 times I think I might be ready to build one...

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Blaino
Arcata/Redding CA

[WarrenP]

Garic,

I could not get the "reply button" to work to reply to your post and now it is working, but, I sent you an e-mail. If, after you read it and you still have questions, just let me know.

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Warren

[Kathy Scott]

Hi,

I've always thought they absolutely excel for dry fly fishing - Darrell Martin wrote a lot about them in his Micropatterns book - but yesterday I had a call from an FAOLer who just adapted his to a heavier material and has been fishing for bonefish, and sails, and snook

Kat

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[Hans Weilenmann]

Kathy,

I have friends in Denmark who have been using furled leaders for seatrout fishing (saltwater dwelling brown trout) off the Danish coast for years now. The base material is monofilament. Thread furled leaders, such as I prefer to use for my own freshwater trout fishing, do not take to use in salt water as well.

Cheers,
Hans W


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[ducksterman]

How about Kevlar [spelling]?