Best connection between salmon fly line and leader?

Thanks to all who replied. Good to see some valuable experience being
shared.

On the trout front, I currently use a furled leader between line and home
made knotted leader:
* on the line end it is currently attached with a loop to loop connection
but that connection is too stiff and certainly for line #4 & #5 not discrete
enough for my liking. Looking forward I sense I will be using a needle or
nail knot to attach furled leader to fly line. A friend of mine was pointing
out the risk of "sinking the floating fly line if the end of it is not
proparly sealed after the knot is made (as the water gradually percolates
and travel up the fly line making it sink with time. he seals the end with
heat to this effect or puts the tiniest drop of glue)
* on the leader end: the furled leader is terminated by a tiny ring and a
blood not is all thta is required to connect the leader.

For salmon, I am giving some thought to the idea of a piece of thick nylon
knotted to the fly line instead of a braided loop. Several of your comments
go in this direction.

I have to point out that although some of us are agile with their hands, he
who is not that creative or very handy sees a bigger challenge in fiddling
with fly lines, glues and other bits and bobs.
I persists in thinking that this fly fishing stuff is very technical. A lot
more complex to succeed that appears to the eye of passers-by. Anyway we all
progress at our own paces, don't we!

Tightlines
Jerome



"Jarmo Hurri" wrote in message
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Jerome For salmon / sea trout fishing, what connection would you
Jerome recommend between fly line and leader to optimise solidity
Jerome whilst ensuring optimum transmission of energy between fly
Jerome line and leader.?

Jerome I currently use a braided loop but would welcome suggestions?

I used to use braided loops, but stopped using them because they
broke, got detached from the fly line or had too large loops. Now I
mostly use nail knots. One good tip is to nail knot a section of mono
(about one foot of mono that has the same diameter as the butts of my
hand-tied leaders) to the fly line, and then nail knot the leaders to
this section of mono. This way you don't have to shorten the fly line
every time you change the leader, but only when the extra section of
mono becomes too short.

In medium trout fishing (line weights 5-6) I am currently testing mono
loop-to-loop-connections. This is because of the need to change
leaders more often, and because I don't consider energy transmission
to be critical here. The loop on the line side is made by attaching a
section of 0.021" mono to the fly line, and tying a perfection loop at
the end of this mono section. On the leader side I also tie a
perfection loop. Like I said, this is a test: it remains to be seen
what kind of problems the two perfection loops cause. However, I do
know that many people use this connection successfully. Hint: by
applying a crochet hook you can make very small perferction loops.

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Jarmo Hurri

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