notbob wrote:
I thought I'd interject a little fly fishing topic.

Bastid!

After turning my nice new tapered leader into a much shorter version
due to wind knots, I've learned how to tie the brutal blood knot,
which I suspect was named after legions of anglers who blew the
corresponding vessel while trying to tie the damn thing.

Rather than address the actual questions (which, BTW, is a true roffian
tradition), I'd offer a few things that have probably already been suggested
somewhere in the wicked long thread.
1) Download LeaderCalc (
http://www.flyfisherman.com/skills/b...alc/index.html ) and use some of
the basic suggestions.
2) Use a good leader material, like Maxima.
3) After tying many of these, discovering that they work very well (except
when fishing waters with a lot of vegetation), expounding on their
superiority, go back to tapered leaders because you're a lazy bastid. Worked
for me. ;-)
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TL,
Tim
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