Just wait until I get my bifocals, Ordes! I'll get yer rope a dope down and then paint you in soft vinyl. You'll be just like one of Jimi's bass wigglers... all soft and...WHAM! she strikes like a rattler. Stop foolin around, I would have had that fish!
From: "DonO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [VFB] BRAIDED LOOP LEADER CONNECTORS
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:47:21 -0700
Murf,I usually get an entire season out of one knot like this. After the season, I trim both sides back and make a new knot, which one should do regardless.For you old guys with bad eyes, just switch to snap-swivels. LOLDOnO----- Original Message -----From: David MurphySent: Monday, December 19, 2005 11:03 AMSubject: Re: [VFB] BRAIDED LOOP LEADER CONNECTORSVinyl sounds pretty soft for salt/big-game fish. Doesn't it tear or fray? Maybe I'm imagining too stiff of a rod for what you are describing. We'll have to fish the salt together someday as my flyfishing skills are poor casting heavy. Get a fish on though and I can hold my own for the first hour or so. If Richard comes along, make sure you strap him down. He has no problem catching but, unless he put on weight, watersking might be the result. ;-)
As for switching from drys to nymphs, I have a similar setup with 2 weights of leadcore leaders and just change the whole leader from the loop. I'm getting poor eyesight and am up for any ideas to change my rig more quickly.
If anyone has pictures of these methods or alternatives, I'm interested. Possibly my ignorance is visualization skills as well. My last "100 pounder" (okay, it was 90) was a white marlin caught between St. John and St. Croix and the whole story is humorous... to me. Same fish was caught 6 months later off the horn of Africa. Okay, I was trolling, so shoot me. I DID tag and release.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Ross
Henk, do you mean Sepp's loops? My only concern with some loops is the
smooth transference of energy. I still usually whip a small loop. If I
could cast better, I'd use nail knots. ;-)
Richard
From: "DonO" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey Richard,
I use the braided loops with the shrink-tube on my 8wt and smaller outfits.
Then I use a looped braided leader, shortened, then two diameters of tippet
tied with blood-knots. To swap to nymphing (in deeper than 3' of water), I
have a spare spool loaded with sink-tip, a sinking braided leader and a
short tippet of heavy flourocarbon.
On the heavy stuff, especialy saltwater, I make my own loops and whip-finish
them, and seal the knot in virgin liquid vinyl. The liquid vinyl stays
pliable and goes through the guides easily. I also apply vinyl to the
backing to flyline knot (stripped line w/nail-knot) so that it runs through
the guides more easily, especially on the 12 and 14wts. There is so much
pressure being exerted with a big fish and that knot can run the guides a
dozen or more times while fighting it. The same goes for the line-to-leader
knot when trying to land a big fish. It needs to go through the guides
without hanging up in the least.
DonO
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