Fly Fishing Dish » Loops http://flyfishingdish.com All about the Joys of Fly Fishing Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:24:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Loopy Leaders http://flyfishingdish.com/2009/02/07/loopy-leaders/ http://flyfishingdish.com/2009/02/07/loopy-leaders/#comments Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:40:19 +0000 CtScribe http://flyfishingdish.com/?p=106 I was recently asked my opinion bout looped leader. As opposed to a regular leaders, that are attached to the float line directly, using a blood-knot, a small, looped tag line is fastened to the float that the leader, also having a looped end, is woven through. There are a few advantages to a looped, [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I was recently asked my opinion bout looped leader. As opposed to a regular leaders, that are attached to the float line directly, using a blood-knot, a small, looped tag line is fastened to the float that the leader, also having a looped end, is woven through.
There are a few advantages to a looped, such as the ease in which the leaders can be changed out. When changing out regular leaders, due to a hard knot or a high break, it is necessary to cut the old leader of, and retie a knew one, thereby waisted a few inches of float line each time. With a looped leader, one can simply remove the old, and rethread the new.
While this is very handy, the visibility and drag of a loop is much higher than a small blood-knot. Due to those factors, I typically will only use a looped leader when fishing saltwater, or steel heads in rapid water, where visibility and drag are not so problematic, and for such situations, I find them very useful, however I would not recommend them for lighter trout fishing where it is preferable to to keep your line very streamline and clear. All that said, I highly recommend them for heavy fishing, but have yet to find a plus to using them for stream fishing.

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