how long a leader for salmon

thekevin4540

how long of a leader do you use for fly fishing for salmon. i have a 15 foot double hand rod and a 10 foot single hand rod would you use a different size leader for the differend rod i was watching a man fishing and i asked him how long a leader he was useing and he sead 5 foot i think this was very short becous i use double that trout fishing

coolwings

Sunk link, sinking tip I have about 10' of leader. Basically it is a lightweight spinning setup, using flies.

Floating line, plus 1' to 1 1/2' collar of heavy mono, and then about 12'-14' of leader, with two droppers and a tail fly.

In my case the leader length is to manage the depth each fly fishes to a degree of exactness, and offer the fish alternatives to choose from in this.
The tail fly also steadies and drags sufficiently that I can dibble the top dropper directly across on a short line and offer a different presentation to the down and across style every 3rd or 4th cast.
The middle fly fishes like the tail, but a little higher, closer to the surface mirror and is a size alternative from the tail fly for the fish to choose from.

SeaFields

What type of leader would you fish in a spate river coolwings? I mean a place that the pools are no more than 5 yards wide/long but there are grilse there.

Zzippy

I prefer a short leader, maybe 5-8 foot of mono, I prefer to use the fly line or a polyleader set the depth the fly is fishing at. Most of the lads fishing the Galway Weir fish a short leader, the water is gin clear there, and the fish don't seem to mind...
The rivers I fish I don't fish droppers, learned that lesson the hard way! Nothing like losing a good fish because your dropper got snagged to persuade you one fly is the way to go :mad:

Compton

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ironbluedun

10foot 4 salmon

coolwings

SeaFields wrote: »

What type of leader would you fish in a spate river coolwings? I mean a place that the pools are no more than 5 yards wide/long but there are grilse there.

Probably a floater, a 18" collar of sinking braid, to a 5' - 6' leader, one fly a double or treble on the short leader. I would have a removeable dropper for dibbling a bushy fly across pools with fast central spinal streams. It just ain't fished until you've fished it at least two different ways.

On the droppers, I should mention the droppers always are single hooks, double/treble on the tail position and being light the droppers trail downstream from a fish in midwater during play and are well out of the way of rocky bottom related trouble.
But it is not possible to use this trick in weedy sections of a river.

blackstairsboy

I usually use the length of the rod so my 10 foot 6 inch rod has a 10 foot 6 inch leader for sea trout that is a single dropper in the middle of the leader. When I was younger and I fished an 8 foot rod I used an 8 foot leader. Just the way I do it and I have found it works.

TimMac

They saw your leader should be two thirds the length of your rod