Interesting! I rarely use anything under 9', of course this is
dependent upon the length of rod you use, what you fish for, how you
are fishing and where you fish. For low and big water I switch to 12'
and have even used 15' leaders.

I believe Rio leaders are of the softer variety if leaders. I do not
know if this fact has anything to do with the memory problem. I do know
that in the finer tippet sizes, the softer leader materials kink badly
when using certain knots to tie the fly to the tippet. It's annoying.
( I've switched to the Davy's Knot, which helps some.) I also know that
as leader material gets older, it does have this problem. Is it possible
these leaders were purchased " On Sale" because they'd been sitting
around for too long? It could be because, as rw said, they don't get
used very much by anglers, and they'd been on the shelf too long.

I build my own leaders using Maxima leader material. This is stiffer
than Rio and comes in different tints of color. I then vary the tippet
material for different circumstances. I don't have a lot of problems
straightening these leaders out by simply stretching them a bit.

Hope this helps,
Mark


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