13 Tips on Leaders

The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast

James Hathaway

Bass, Fishing, Bonefish, Wilderness, Flyfishing, Trout, How To, Steelhead, Bluegill, Fly, Orvis, Sports, Salmon, Panfish, Education, Rosenbauer

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2012

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

In this week's fly box we talk about hook styles, casting on snow, and fly-fishing jargon. Then on to the main podcast, which is on the perenially popular subject of leaders: When to change tippets, how to modify your leader, the differences between the various types, fluoro vs. nylon, saltwater leaders described, and much more. It's a topic that is mystifying to many people and we hope we both intrigue and educate you this week.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast with Tom Rosenbauer, bringing you tips, tricks and techniques to help you get the most from your time on the water.
0:11.5	Here's acclaimed fly fishing author and lifelong fly fishing
0:14.6	enthusiast Tom Rosenbauer.
0:17.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast. I'm sorry that we haven't had a podcast for a couple weeks, both your
0:26.6	producer James Hathaway and I have been out of the country for a little bit.
0:33.0	So I apologize.
0:34.1	We'll try not to try not to let that happen again.
0:36.3	The next time I leave town,
0:38.0	I'll make sure that I have a couple podcasts ready.
0:41.0	Anyway, today is March 7, 2012 and we're going to talk about leaders a little
0:48.2	bit later today. Lots and lots of questions about leaders all the time. Leaders are a confusing subject so I'm going to kind of pick some
0:56.3	Pick some topics revolving all around leaders that seems to confuse people and confuse me sometimes too. So anyway let's start off with the flybox.
1:09.5	Some short questions that we've gotten from people over the past few weeks.
1:17.0	Jonathan from Texas wants to know about, he's on his way to the lower mountain fork fishing and he wants to know about hook designation.
1:27.2	So let's listen to Jonathan's phone call.
1:36.2	Hey Tom, this is Jonathan Dean from Fort Worth, Texas. I'm heading out to fish at Beaver's State Park in the Lower Mountain Fork River,
1:41.6	a little tailwater, and South East Oklahoma, and I'm looking forward to trying
1:45.3	to rabbit for the merger, so I'll let you know how it goes.
1:48.9	I did have a question about Hook.
1:52.4	I know I've read stuff about the different types of books and which
1:56.7	hooks recommend for time which flies and so forth, but I'm not quite sure what
2:01.2	it means when they say heavy gauge versus fine wire versus
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