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Tom Rowland Podcast

HOW 2 TUESDAY #16 - How To Tie A Bonefish Leader

Tom Rowland Podcast

Waypoint TV

Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.9903 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Lefty Kreh made the 50% rule for leaders and I use it all the time. A 9ft leader is kind of standard. There is a very simple formula, the one made by Lefty.  4+2+1+2=9 4.5+6+3+1.5+3=13.5 We start with 50 and taper down to 15. We start 4ft of 50lb, 2ft of 30lb, 1ft of 25lb then double the last distance of 2ft of 15lb.

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0:56.2

week's how to Tuesday is going to be how to tie a bonefish leader, how to make a leader for bone fishing or general saltwater fishing

1:06.0

without having to buy a pre-tide leader,

1:08.0

one that you can make all by yourself.

1:11.0

I think it's very important that you know how to do that.

1:13.3

Pretide leaders are great, not less tapered leaders are great, but you will be in a

1:19.2

situation to where you will have to make your own leader at some point or your leader will get so

1:25.2

beat up that you will have to extend it out and if you don't know the formula, you might run

1:32.4

into a problem. Lefty Craig, probably the most well-known fly

1:38.0

fishermen we've ever had in our world, one of the nicest men that you would ever meet, and one of the great innovators

1:46.6

of our sport has a great formula.

1:50.0

This is how I tie all my bonefish leaders or general redfish leaders, general saltwater

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