Joe;
I’ll hand deliver my swap leaders to you at the January LFFC (Lynchburg Fly Fishing Club) meeting. If I visit the Post Office first I can even have them in a box with return poatage!!
Joe,
Like Jack, as soon as I know the exact number in this swap, I will bring my furled leaders to you at the January Lynchburg Fly Fishing Club meeting in January and have an envelope already stamped and addressed back to me for the leaders you will be sending to me.
Merry Christmas
Joe, same thing Jack Hise & WarrenP said for my leaders.
Ok all there are 4 1/2 days left to sign up for the furled leader swap, please let me know if anyone else is interested.
thanks
Joe B
I’ll be submitting 6’ 6" leaders made with 7X tippet material and rated at 3.1 lb. test per strand. (9.3 lb. test with a tippet end dia. of only 0.24). Tippet rings included.
so far I have half made, plan on making the other half this week. can’t wait to see everyone else’s leaders!
I sent a private message to all participates, if you do not get your private message please let me know.
Merry Christmas!!!
Fishwater
Leaders are made , labeled, packaged and will be in the mail tomorrow. Please let me know when they arrive.
Brad
Brad,
I will let you know as soon as they arrive. Thanks again for joining in the swap. Have a Merry Christmas.
Joe B
Joe,
I got your message about someone having to drop out of the swap and I tried to respond, but, your PM box is full. You need to do a little house cleaning. I will still send you the original number of furled leaders we started with and you can do whatever you want with the extra ones. Kind of a “thank you” for hosting the swap. See you at the meeting…
Warren,
I cleaned up my PM box;), I Talked to Jack and Kaboom1 and I think we are going to send bugman the leaders anyway. Maybe a little gift of a few leaders will ease the tension of his damage problem.
Thanks,
Joe B
Sounds like a plan! Praying for you Ivan, hope your house gets fixed soon!
This is the way I make the leaders I’m sending in:
I make a big loop (12-10-8-6) leader out of clear .004 Polyester.
Then make 1 big loop wrap of Cotton coated Polyester Tan.
Then make 1 big loop wrap of Cotton coated Polyester Olive drab.
Then twist, Furl, shorb loop both ends, done!
Furled leaders done and handed off to Joe since he only lives a 1/4 mile away. 
Leaders done and in mail tommorow
Sorry I took so long, but the leaders are in the mail…
To let everyone know i sent out swaped leader yesterday 1/14/12.
It was a great success, everyone made great leaders. I cant wait for the rain
to stop here so I can try them out. I would like to thank Jack, and Warren for there
advise on how to handle a swap. I hope we can do this again latter on in the year.
P.S. If anyone has or can get bugmans address so I can send him the extra leaders
that would help. I PM him but got no reply. If i dont get it in a week or so I will
return the leaders to the people that made them.
Thanks Again.
Recieved my leaders to day. They all looked nicely done and I did some testing to see how they compare.
All cast very well with the heavier leaders being more agressive in the turn over (as expected). Next I measured each one and must say most of us have got to tweek our formulas a bit. Only TomS and Warren’s leader were the length they listed. I then did a 4 lb. pull test as all the leaders were rated over 6 lb. test.
Jack (6’ 6") 6’ 3", streatch 6 1/2"
TomS (7’) 7’, streatch 3 1/2"
Kaboom1 (7’) 6’ 10", streatch 7 1/2"
Sirhood (5’ 11") 6’ 1/2" streatch broke @ 3 1/2#???!!!
Warren (6’ 9") 6’ 9", streatch 7"
Kevin (7’) 6’ 10", streatch 6"
Joe (7’) 6’ 7 1/2". streatch 7 1/4"
The lighter the material the more delicate the presentations and the lighter monos also had the most elongation.
sirhoop yours gave ate the tippet shorb loop, I’ll see if I can get a photo of it.
Jack,
Excellent report and thanks you for sharing your test results.
I am not surprised by the stretch on each but didn’t realize my length was off, I guess I need to make adjustments to the OLD board. 