notbob wrote:
On 2008-04-15, notbob wrote:

Q. Is it practical to drop a couple mils at a time on an all-knot leaders
or should it always be 1 mil at a time?


I just ran across a possible answer to this question. To quote:

"The general rule of thumb is that you can safely skip a single "X" size
when joining monofilament sizes greater than or equal to 4X. When joining
sizes smaller than 4X, you should not skip any sizes. In other words, 4X
would be tied to 5X which would be tied to 6X and so on (assuming, of
course, you want a 6X tippet). Going directly from 4X to 6X is asking for
trouble!"

http://www.flyfishingjacksonhole.com...blood_knot.htm

Although this page IS about blood knots, He doesn't clarify as to whether
this is a good rule of thumb for leader/tippets in general or only in
reference to using blood knots. Comments?

nb

nb

I think you're obsessing about this. :-)

Tying 4x to 6x, or 3x to 5x (more common in my case), is just fine.

Quite often I'll clip my leader way back and tie on a long section 4x or
5x for low-drag, deep nymphing. If I see fish rising I'll tie a dry fly
onto the weird, unbalanced leader and it turns over well enough.

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