Smallmouth fluoro Leaders

[Oregon Native]

Been using Silver Thread fluro for years....great cost and quality.  Zero complaints

[kroberts9]

I use 8lb invizx or 10lb sniper

[MickD]

One advantage of using floro leader material over line is when fishing blades.  The stiffness of the leader material minimizes the blades tangling with the leader.

[roadwarrior]

On 3/6/2018 at 5:44 PM, ww2farmer said:

If you want to buy leader specific fluoro............rock on. If not, regular fluoro from a quality mfg. will be fine too.

I use "remnants" which are basically "free".  For spinning tackle, Tatsu #6; for baitcasting either 

#12 Tatsu, AbrazX or #15 InvizX.  

 

[Boomstick]

I have used InvisX, Berkley Trilene and Berkley Vanish as leaders because I had it, but for a dedicated leader you can't beat the Seaguar Blue Label. That stuff is invisible and it is strong and really expensive per yard, but fortunately we don't need 200+ yards of it at a time. Also I've had great luck with the knot strength especially in lower diameter test lines.

 

I do not recommend Vanish by the way, if a fish swims by it, it will start to fray and you have to pretty much retie every cast. I just was out of leader material and they had it at the local Walmart so I decided to try it.

[desmobob]

19 minutes ago, Boomstick said:

I have used InvisX, Berkley Trilene and Berkley Vanish as leaders because I had it, but for a dedicated leader you can't beat the Seaguar Blue Label. That stuff is invisible and it is strong and really expensive per yard, but fortunately we don't need 200+ yards of it at a time. Also I've had great luck with the knot strength especially in lower diameter test lines.

 

I do not recommend Vanish by the way, if a fish swims by it, it will start to fray and you have to pretty much retie every cast. I just was out of leader material and they had it at the local Walmart so I decided to try it.

 

+1

 

I used remnants for a long time.  I had a partial spool of Vanish (I call it Vanquished) left over from spooling a spinning reel and, after I found out how fragile the stuff is, I threw away the left-overs.

 

I still have a lot of AbrazX that I bought in filler spools to use for leader material, but dedicated leader materials are a better choice.

 

Tight lines,

Bob

[MickD]

I have used a lot of regular FC line for leaders, and it works OK, but if I want more confidence I use FC designed to be a leader.  One technique where I will not use line for leader is fishing blades.  The stiffness of the FC reduces tangling when twitching the blades.

[NHBull]

Blue leader is exceptional, seaguar also make "premium" and I can't tell the difference