Tim J. wrote:
Cabin Fever typed:

egildone wrote:

I have been looking at making hand made leaders and wonder how many
roff members make handmade knotted leaders and are they worth the
effort that it takes to make them?

You can buy them cheap enough and just replace the broken tippets. But
some die hard purists prefer to tie their own.


I have tied my own and I've used tapered. My desire to tie my own had
nothing to do with being a "purist", but wanting to do it just to do it.

That 'purist' bit wasn't meant to offend and I hope it didn't. I was
just suggesting that some purists do it. I tried to tie my own leaders
but my knots weren't always up to par, plus when fished I remember
clumps of crap getting caught on my knots (I fish mainly ponds and small
lakes in the warmer months where there is a lot of floating schmutts).

I
don't see this any differently than tying flies or building a fly rod, as I
wouldn't do either to save money. In my personal experience, I found the
leaders I tied turn over a bit better than the tapered ones. That said, I
use both - mainly due to laziness.

--
Chris Fleitman
Long Island

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