03-19-2013, 01:36 PM
It really does make a difference but it is only part of the puzzle.
The more actively feeding they are the less impact the leader is going to have on them.
If you're not getting hits go one step smaller fly and one step lighter leader. It was real hard for me to get my mind around using 7x given the size of the fish but it works and back then I had never heard of florocarbon. Now it's all I fish and it seems to help but it's far from mandatory.
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The more actively feeding they are the less impact the leader is going to have on them.
If you're not getting hits go one step smaller fly and one step lighter leader. It was real hard for me to get my mind around using 7x given the size of the fish but it works and back then I had never heard of florocarbon. Now it's all I fish and it seems to help but it's far from mandatory.
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