03-03-2019, 07:44 PM
[quote TubeDude][#0000FF][b]Have you ever used those little barbed metal loops that you stick up inside the end of the flyline? Or the little plastic things into which you put the knotted ends of both the fly line and the leader butt?[/quote]
I haven't used the barbed metal loops but I have used the leader links before and they worked okay. Sometimes it was hard to get the knots back inside the slot for a clean connection.
I also at one time used a super glue attachment for the line to leader connection. You would take some acetone and soak about 1/2" of the end of the fly line for about 20 seconds and then strip off the outer coating with your fingernail. Then you would take the butt section of the tapered leader and push it up into the dacron core of the fly line as far as it would go and then soak the dacron with super glue. It made for a real clean attachment. I used that for years and then I started having some failures. I don't know if it was the glue, the leader material, or just the installer. Some fly lines have a solid core so this method wouldn't work for those.
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I haven't used the barbed metal loops but I have used the leader links before and they worked okay. Sometimes it was hard to get the knots back inside the slot for a clean connection.
I also at one time used a super glue attachment for the line to leader connection. You would take some acetone and soak about 1/2" of the end of the fly line for about 20 seconds and then strip off the outer coating with your fingernail. Then you would take the butt section of the tapered leader and push it up into the dacron core of the fly line as far as it would go and then soak the dacron with super glue. It made for a real clean attachment. I used that for years and then I started having some failures. I don't know if it was the glue, the leader material, or just the installer. Some fly lines have a solid core so this method wouldn't work for those.
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