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I don't know how long you've been around, but I've suggested this a few
times over the years - if you have a room that you can use for this, put
a small nail or picture hanger hook in each corner and use rubber bands
and small stainless or plated hooks to "stretch" (not with lots of
tension, only enough to keep 'em taut) leaders and lines uncoiled.
Also, a hook or two in the back of a large piece of furniture will allow
storage of lines in large coils without them getting in the way. At the
very least, get a few line reels (not fishing reels - these are large
plastic "spools") and use them. If you must store "coiled," the larger
the coil, the less problems you'll have.

- Dave K.
(the very foolish guy who started the "coiled leader thing" in his
newbie post) Nothing is simple on ROFF

Oh, I don't know...it's all pretty simple...unless you try and make it
difficult for yourself...buy hey, YMMV...

TC,
R

You know what Mr.LaCourse is going to say about this don´t you Dickie
boy? How are you going to carry that room to the stream?

Nobody is going to nail leaders to the wall Dickie boy. it is much
simpler to drop them in hot water, and then hold them straight while
they cool.

While it is true that nylon absorbs sone water, and this does affect
its wet breaking strain negatively, this is also temperature
dependent, and when the leader returns to normal temperatures, or is
"dried", it returns to normal.

Nylon fishing line is made (surprise surprise!) for use in water, it
always absorbs some water in use, and it always loses some strength as
a result.

Unless you use nylon leaders for fishing in boiling water, there is no
problem Dickie boy, and even the it would merely result in a slightly
lesser breaking strain of the nylon concerned.

MC