"katie star" wrote in message
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You are NOT a nice person.

OK, you figured that out.

Keep in mind that we see similar questions several times a year and it gets
boring, you know? Maybe you should start at Google groups and do a search
in r.o.f.f. and see if the question has come up before. Although there are
lots of knowledgeable people hanging out here, nobody is required to help
you, and certainly, nobody is required to be nice. Seeing the bad start you
made, maybe you should consider that your question was mis-stated or somehow
annoying and rather than whining about it, you might just want to simplify
and build on that. Just trying to be helpful.

The list of fly sizes and line weights you posted for Bill Kiene is a start
but way off. Fly sizes spread over line weights with a lot of overlap. I
usually fish a 4 wt. and use flies from size 22 - 6. Tippet size (and
stiffness) is also a factor - it's hard to turn over a size 6 green drake on
7x tippet and you can't (actually *I* can't) even thread 3x through a size
22 hook eye. I think you asked what 'turn over' meant? Really there's no
turning involved, just unrolling the loop all the way - you want the fly to
be past the loop when it lands so there's no loop of tippet tangling the fly
in the water. If the tippet is too wimpy for your fly the energy from the
fly line will not reach the fly and you'll have a big pile-o-tippet. (But
sometimes that can be a good thing).

Here's a good chart to see the relationship between tippet size and fly
size. This is one of the things you just do by instinct after a while. I
can tell what kind of leader I need for a given fly and will rebuild as
necessary if I need to make a major change (say from a size 16 dry fly to a
size 8 nymph)
http://www.killroys.com/leaders/leaders.htm
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