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East Bay Ed


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In this day of upscale equipment and state of the art fly rods, vests, etc. I find myself getting a little upset.  Maybe its because I'm older, retired, and a cheap skate.  Anyway, I decided to start tying my own steelhead leaders.  I googled steelhead leader formula's and came up with formula's from 5 feet long  (25 lb/15" 15lb/15"  10lb/30 inches) up to 10 foot with a 50 lb stepped down to 10 or 15 lbs.  I'm interested in a 6 or 7 foot long leader because I generally add a dropper of 24 inches (egg) to whatever I'm fishing as my lead fly.  Anyway, my question is do any of you tie your own leaders (6 or 7 feet), and if so what is your formula?

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papaoak


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Hey Ed,

I use something like the first formula but not as much length.

I use a couple of feet of 25 then 5 or so of 15 then a 3 or so ft of 8.

If I were fishing the coast I'd finish with 10 lb.

It works for me.

Have fun

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Thanks Papa Oak.  I think your's sounds like the solution I was looking for.

Ed



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