[cloudsfor]

Hi, spey fellows and seniors.
If you are using a Poly leader, could you introduce your method how you attach the tippet and which knot you are using on Poly leader?
Although I guess 'loop to loop' connection will be better for long usage of Poly leader, I thought that connection on tippet may be harmful to presentation or fish may feel rejection due to that connection.
How about your thinking?
I will thank you to advise any opinion you have.

cludsfor,

 

[t_richerzhagen]

non-slip loop

knot to tie a loop in the mono core and then loop in a shorter standard leader with a 10# Maxima tippet. The loop to loop saves damage to the polyleader and allows replacement of the "tippet". It works well for me and is 100%. The know that usually fails when snagged is the double surgeons connecting the tippet to the heavier leader material with the loop to loop connection.

 

[Rick J]

I also use loops but prefer a spider hitch followed by a double surgeons (making a double loop) on the tippet to a double surgeons on the leader

 

[fredaevans]

spider hitch ?

Rick, that's a new one on me ... what's it look like/tied?
Fred

 

[Rick J]

Fred,
The spider hitch is a lazy man's Bimini

http://www.sdhookandline.com/knots/spiderhitch.html

It is supposed to be a 100% knot - just does not have the shock absorption of the Bimini. So you end with a loop - I double the loop using a double surgeons

 

[Bob Pauli]

Fred: re Spider Hitch

Fred, just like Rick, our Kispiox guide uses 12lb Maxima exclusively, tying a spider hitch in one end to provide a loop, then ties a double surgeons with the loop ending up with a "doubled" loop" to slip over the loop in the fly line tip. It works well, and usually breaks after the tippet knot, when struggling to pull a hook out of a jam or tree.

Geoff Wilson, the Australian knot guru, rates the Spider Hitch at 80% with monofilament. It is not as strong as a Bimini but sure is fast to tie.

I like Rick J's solution and know it will hold the most violent of Skeena steelhead.

 

[cloudsfor]

Thanks all.

Thanks a lot for all your great advice.
I think most fishermen prefer the double surgeons loop on poly leader.
I got the slow sinking 10' poly leader, is there a standard or proper length or materials of tippet?
For instance, I estimate the fluoro carbon materials will be better match with sinking poly leader than copolymer materials and I think 5' long tippet may be suitable that length of poly leader.

 

[t_richerzhagen]

For the intermediate

I use enough tippet to give me the same length as a floating leader, or about five feet. For the faster sinking polyleaders, I use a shorter tip much as I would with a standard sinking tip. You do not want it floating too high above the tip.