Any body using braid for leader or tippet?

[Billy Harris]

I have been introduced to braid for bass fishing with conventional gear and I love it, BUt is anyone using any form of it for trout fishing with fly tackle?

[Carter Simcoe]

Its not going to work as a leader because its not stiff enough.

[patrick mccormick]

I won’t use braid for anything except backing and halibut fishing (in 100-200 feet of water) I hate braid hate it hate it hate it. It makes for line cuts, lost fish (lost a 60+ pound king due to braid once, clients lost lots of fish because they insisted on using braid).

[Billy Harris]

Man what kinda braid were you using,

[patrick mccormick]

Firewire, tough line, whatever, it doesn’t stretch at all which is its worse part, if a fish turns toward you you have like 4 feet of play before the hook pops out whereas with mono you have much more elesticity.

[nemoblackdog]

I never thought of the fact that is is not stiff enough, but your right it would not be stiff enough.

Hmmm…

Instead of the conventional tapered mono leader, I did some experimenting today, and put 10′ lengths of these on the end of my fly line:

[trevor smart]

billy, orvis sells a tapered braided leader, not sure how close it is to the braid you’re using.

[Ian Crabtree]

I played around with the Orvis braided leaders for a little and was troubled by their tendency to throw spray over the water during presentations unless I was conscientious about false casting the water out of the braid – which isn’t really practical when the fish is close. A furled leader is also another option in this category.

Somewhere (I think it might have been DB’s board) I read a thread where someone was looking at the possibility of using the new translucent GsP braids as tippet. I don’t know if it ever got out of the discussion realm and into actual use.

Here’s what I’m talking about: http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/pod/horizontal-pod.jsp?_DARGS=/cabelas/en/common/catalog/pod-link.jsp_A&_DAV=MainCatcat20166-cat600395_TGP&rid=&indexId=cat600395&navAction=push&masterpathid=&navCount=1&parentType=index&parentId=cat600395&id=0041307

[Carter Simcoe]

the “super braids” Billy is talking about are a lot different from catfish trotlines, and braided/furled tapered leaders.

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