Tippet

[BSwan]

Frog Hair!

[skondolf]

Has anyone used the Flouro tippet that H&H sells? I see they sell 50yd spools for pretty much the same price as most other's 30yd spools so from a price perspective it's attractive. How does it work from a performance standpoint?

[NJTroutbum]

I actually switched this year, after years of fishing with standard mono tippet. I tried flourocarbon. I tried the Orvis Maxknot tippet on a recommendation, and love it! I fish 95% dries and grease my leader as always. No problem with sinking tippet or drifts. Love the stuff.

[Cold]

I use fluoro for subsurface (I carry 3X and 4X), mono up top (5X-7X)

Fluoro: Seaguar Grand Max. End of story.

Mono: I experiment with different brands, currently trying Stroft, Hardy Copolymer, Varivas, and Orvis Super Strong is an old standby.

Tried Frog Hair once and only once. Really wanted to like it since it's made locally, but I couldnt even tighten my knots without it breaking, so I still have a near-full spool of frog hair that I'll occasionally use to rib nymphs or some such. Same thing happened to me with Maxima, and Climax seemed to wear out rapidly.

[anglerdave]

I think if you stick with any of the major brands such as Orvis, Rio Umpqua and those that have been already mentioned you can't go wrong. You'll have to decide whether or not you want to spend the extra $$ for flurocarbon or stick with mono.

Dave

[ScottP]

I like Rio Powerflex. Used to use Orvis and Dai-Riki; never had any problems with them either

Regards,
Scott

[Stage 1]

Surprised not to see Maxima Chameleon in here is it just an East Coast Canada Thing????? 95% of anglers up here have spools of this ranging from 2lb to 10lb in their vests. Or am I missing something

[Silver Creek]

Before flourocarbon, I used to take a pinch of mud from the riverbottom and dress the tippet to make it sink a bit. Haven't had to do that lately.

Now folks carry a container of fullers earth mixed with liquid detergent and glycerin. It removes oils and dulls the surface sheen from tippets. Makes them sink faster and less visible. This is a staple of English fly fishers who often fish still water lochs for trout. Now so well known in the states.

http://www.fishingwithstyle.co.uk/fullersearth.htm

I wrote about using bentonite clay cat litter for fullers earth (bentonite) in the post below.

http://troutpredator.info/nymph-fish...-of-the-month/

[NJTroutbum]

Stage 1, I use Chameleon exclusively when fishing streamers and/or bass bugging. When I know that I am going to be nymphing only I will go with Maxima as well.

[Eight Thumbs]

I don't think that you can go wrong with any of the major brands of tippet. That being said, I would point out that Hook and Hackle has some very nice tippet in both regular and fluorocarbon at an extremely reasonable price. 8T