Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast with Tom Rosenberg, bringing you tips, tricks and techniques to help you get the most from your time on the water.

Here's acclaimed fly fishing author and lifelong fly fishing

enthusiasts Tom Rosenbauer.

All right, this week we're going to talk about leaders and their importance. Leaders

are absolutely essential for

for getting things right for catching fish. They're the link between your

big heavy fly line and your fly and a leader really determines how that fly is presented.

So in certain circumstances such as trout fishing

with a dry fly, the leader is critical

and picking the right leader is absolutely

essential and something like large mouth bass fishing with a big cork or deer

have bass bug it's not that important in fact with bass bugging a lot of us often just put on a piece of 20 or 25 pound

test line that's not even tapered and take it from there because bass aren't leader shy and

presentation of a big popping bug isn't that critical. aren't

leader shy and presentation of a big popping bug isn't that critical but in most

situations leaders are important so how do you choose a leader?

Well the first thing I think that you do is is think about length

leaders come anywhere from six feet

long to 15 feet long. I'd advise you to probably forget about the 15 footers if

you're listening to this podcast and don't know much about leaders you

probably don't even want to

bother with a 15 foot leader. Let's start down at the short end. A six foot

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