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Tom Rowland Podcast

How To Tie A Bonefish Leader - The Lefty Kreh Method

Tom Rowland Podcast

Waypoint TV

Wilderness, Sports, Health & Fitness

5899 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 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. Listen to me walk through it or here’s a video where I explain it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8vEd7NY53E Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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this 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 without having to buy a pre-tide leader, one that you can make all by yourself.

1:25.8

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

1:28.8

Pretide leaders are great, not less tapered leaders are great, but you will be in a situation to where you will have to make

1:36.0

your own leader at some point, or your leader will get so beat up that you will have to extend

1:42.2

it out.

1:43.4

And if you don't know the formula,

1:46.7

you might run into a problem.

1:48.8

Lefty Craig, probably the most well-known fly fisherman we've ever had in our world, one of the nicest

1:56.6

men that you would ever meet, and one of the great innovators of our sport has a great formula. This is how I tie all my

2:06.0

bonefish leaders or general redfish leaders, general saltwater leaders. If you

2:10.6

want a leader, this works for trout fishing. if you want a leader that is going to turn over well, this is it.

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