Peter's Fly Fishing Vlog: How to Save Money on Leaders

Expensive tapered leaders and tippet material is essential for effective dry fly fishing. Trout can see our tippet so we need the finest stuff we can get with the highest breaking strain. Dry flies are very light with a lot of air resistance. We need our leader to turn over those flies.

However, when we get to other forms of fly fishing, we can save money by making our leaders out of standard mono or fluorocarbon.

[christiannilsson]

When still water fishing i make my own leader's aswell, But as soon as you fish downstream in a current knots will create drag, drift, lift and might kink, so i use tapered downstream. - Thanks for the video.

[Petergoneflyfishing]

Hi Peter, Thank you for the video. I am curious if you have ever compared P-Line Fluoro to Seaguar Invizx Fluoro. The Seaguar comes with 50 yards less but I think the diameter might be smaller compared to the P-Line. However, I have yet to try the Seaguar Fluoro.

[DanielSwe]

Do you see a problem with all those knots creating noise underwater, disturbing shy fish?

[flyfishingmitch]

Hey Peter. Great video.
I do exactly as you when it comes to leaders. Only thing, I can't seem to find a good brand of flourocarbon in smaller sizes under 8lbs test that I use to swing for steelhead. I've tried many different brands but find they're fishing line to be too supple.probably because it was meant for spinning reel fishing. Is Pline flouro a stiffer material in those sizes? Thanks for taking the time. Really enjoy your videos.