Fluorocarbon leaders, anyone use them?

"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
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Tom Nakashima wrote:
Expensive, I'll have to research a little more.

Bill was making a joke. Check the date.

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Ken Fortenberry

Ok, got me sleeping on that one Ken, 2016.
I haven't priced FC leaders yet.
-tom

"Bill Kiene" wrote in
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We only carry FC knotless tapered leaders now............in 12 packs @
only $99USD.

Our customers realized that they we no longer able to catch fish of
any kind, any place with copolymer monofilament leaders.

January 25, 2016


What would the advantage be over a FC tippet?


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Scott
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"Scott Seidman" wrote in message
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"Bill Kiene" wrote in
et:

We only carry FC knotless tapered leaders now............in 12 packs @
only $99USD.

Our customers realized that they we no longer able to catch fish of
any kind, any place with copolymer monofilament leaders.

January 25, 2016


What would the advantage be over a FC tippet?


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Scott
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I have a feeling Ken will tell you they're slightly more expensive.
-tom

Tom Nakashima wrote:
Expensive, I'll have to research a little more.

Bill was making a joke. Check the date.

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Ken Fortenberry

rw wrote:


There MAY be a case for fluorocarbon tippet, but I'm skeptical. I've
compared FC and ordinary mono in water, and I don't see any difference.


Like I said, I think they're great for nymphing in certain situations
but that's not my reason for posting.

I don't care that YOU don't see anydifference, the question is.....do
THE FISH *see* a difference?

Ken Fortenberry wrote in news:jjQBf.27910
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Scott Seidman wrote:
"Bill Kiene" wrote in
et:

We only carry FC knotless tapered leaders now............in 12 packs
@
only $99USD.

Our customers realized that they we no longer able to catch fish of
any kind, any place with copolymer monofilament leaders.

January 25, 2016


What would the advantage be over a FC tippet?

Sheesh, Bill finally loosens up a little bit and posts a funny
and it flies over some heads so fast it leaves scorch marks.


Right you are!! Man, how did I miss that??

I had a TA this semester, who emailed me something. Later, when he was
talking about the message, I realized that I just didn't even see the
part he was referring to. We arrived at an arrangement by which anything
important got its own message, or appeared in the first two sentences.

For some reason, my wife leaves long voicemails. At this point, she
knows that if I don't think the message is important after about 15
seconds, I just delete it, with the rest unheard.

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Scott
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On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:29:10 -0800, "Tom Nakashima"
wrote:

Thanks for the tip Dave, there's an Orvis shop 3 miles away from me, I'll
check them out this week.

Bring the title to your car. d;o)

Scott Seidman wrote:
"Bill Kiene" wrote in
et:

We only carry FC knotless tapered leaders now............in 12 packs @
only $99USD.

Our customers realized that they we no longer able to catch fish of
any kind, any place with copolymer monofilament leaders.

January 25, 2016


What would the advantage be over a FC tippet?

Sheesh, Bill finally loosens up a little bit and posts a funny
and it flies over some heads so fast it leaves scorch marks.

--
Ken Fortenberry

Wayne Knight wrote:
rw wrote:


There MAY be a case for fluorocarbon tippet, but I'm skeptical. I've
compared FC and ordinary mono in water, and I don't see any difference.



Like I said, I think they're great for nymphing in certain situations
but that's not my reason for posting.

I don't care that YOU don't see anydifference, the question is.....do
THE FISH *see* a difference?

That's precisely right, Wayne. Unfortunately, I don't see like a fish,
so I have to go with what I've got.

I have the strong suspicion that people who swear by FC have fallen for
a seductive fallacy: Cum Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc, or "With this, therefore
because of this."

Maybe the fishing was slow, so they tried changing tactics, changing
flies, and finally changing to FC. Suddenly, the fishing got hot, but it
wasn't due to the FC. Sometimes the fishing just gets hot. But it's
fixed in their minds that the FC was the cause, and the selling point
about the index of refraction is at least plausible.

It would be possible to test the effectiveness of FC objectively, with
blind tests in actual fishing conditions. It would be time consuming
because you'd need lots of trials to make a confident conclusion. AFAIK,
it's never been done.

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Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

On 1/25/06 2:23 PM, in article
, "Scott Seidman"
wrote:

Ken Fortenberry wrote in news:jjQBf.27910
:

Scott Seidman wrote:
"Bill Kiene" wrote in
et:

We only carry FC knotless tapered leaders now............in 12 packs
@
only $99USD.

Our customers realized that they we no longer able to catch fish of
any kind, any place with copolymer monofilament leaders.

January 25, 2016


What would the advantage be over a FC tippet?

Sheesh, Bill finally loosens up a little bit and posts a funny
and it flies over some heads so fast it leaves scorch marks.


Right you

I'm sorry, Scott. Were you saying something?

:-)

Bill