Building Furled Leaders Without Jigs or Tools
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Uploaded by captsodie on Feb 7, 2010
Furled leaders are becoming more popular all the time. But they can be costly if you buy them, or most require jigs or other tools if you want to build them yourself. We will demonstrate a method of constructing your own twisted (furled) leaders from ordinary monofilament fishing line and the only tools needed are your two bare hands (no cumbersome jigs to set up or drills to use.) It only takes a couple of minutes to build one and you can make hundreds of leaders from a single spool of mono for just pennies each.
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EXCELENT WORK,THANK YOU.
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Enjoyed the video, however been struggling to make a furled leader using this method with 3lb mono..
Maybe I'll try again soon, thanks for the tuition
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Loving this info, thanks for sharing your knowledge and providing a great video making this an easy technique to learn. I've been practicing all evening and now have a decent set of half a dozen made up. Thanks again.
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Fantastic information, been practicing making these all evening and now have half a dozen I'm reasonably happy with. Can't wait to put one on my new 7' 4/5 to see how they perform. I was looking at making a board to make leaders, not sure I'll bother now! Thanks for the wonderful knowledge and a great video making it easy to try.
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Thanks for sharing!!
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Great advice - although I could find no monofiliment, even with stretching, that did not have a memory. I did find some great fluorocarbon that was flat and stretched to the exact thicknesses!!! Thanks so much,
Rich
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@captsodie cool can to attach a leader to the end where you attach the tippet ?
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Yes, if you wanted to you could attach a tapered leader. However, you need to keep in mind the transfer of energy. As long as the butt section of the leader is between 75 and 100 percent the diameter of the attachment point and the taper continues it should work. I don't see any reason to waste a leader on an already good leader system that just needs a tippet.
captsodie 8 months ago
There is no perfect leader for every situation. What we like about building our own furled leaders is that they turn over a fly very well, they can be customized to your own needs, this method allows a tippet to be added easily by loop-to-loop connection and these only cost two cents to make rather than several dollars for a purchased one.
captsodie 8 months ago
I understand what you are suggesting and think it might be worth investigating. The knot just makes it easy and fast to build. However, with a little practice and patients the ends should be able to be hidden within the twist. I guess I will have to give this a try and see what happens. Thanks for the feedback.
captsodie 1 year ago
As I mentioned in another post the ratio of the sections is a variable you can control to your own needs. I am glad to hear the leaders are working well for you and the cost for building one can not be beat! Keep me posted as you make adjustments/changes. I always like hearing how folks modify these for their own use.
captsodie 1 year ago
The ratio of four strand section to two strand can be varied as needed. One of the things we like about this method is the ease of customizing the leader to your own needs. We prefer loop to loop for the tippet but some folks have built these leaders with a built in single strand for the tippet. This does not allow exchanging sizes of tippet as easily but they work well. We enjoy hearing of different modifications that folks come up with to make the leaders work for their own needs
captsodie 1 year ago
Furled by hand or furled by using a drill or other tool is still furled. At less than two cents per leader with this method (depending on price of mono) rather than dollars for a purchased one or time and effort to build one with a home made jig and drill, I prefer this method. No one leader is perfect for every situation or for every angler. This method provides just another option for anglers when deciding on leaders.
captsodie 1 year ago