I've become a fan of using 2mm stainless steel rings to join different pieces of tippet line together, or to add droppers.

Only a bit more fiddly than joining with knots, but with several advantages.

I've learned that one make seems to cut the line , but I've not had any such problems with Riverge rings.

What I do find is that their fiddliness in bank-side tying is a great generator of expletives, especially when the small ring leaps (as if alive) and quickly hides in the vegetation.

The solution I've hit upon is is to tie tags of around an inch of tippet material (or even a tippet length to be stored in a plastic envelope ready for use).

A tag makes handling them considerably less fiddly, especially when pulling a knot tight, then the tag can be removed.

Four or five pre-tagged rings save an awful lot of bank-side expletives (and not so many lost rings).

Another rainy-day job .

I always make up my leaders including tippets and rings before I go fishing and keep them in a CD wallet. Which make do you find cuts the line?

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I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing I can think of that probably doesn't.

Sounds like a good idea Leonroskilly.

BK

i had this thought of making tippit sections up at home to save both time and frustration on the bank .. i bought a cheap fly box and took the foam out and have used this for leaders etc i will use the other half section for this sort of thing..

I keep mine in my flybox on a sewing needle threader, simply put length of nylon though the threader hole and pull ring over. Sorted.

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Just My Tuppenceworth!!

Thread mine on a paperclip and then tie them while they are on it, lot easier than fannying about trying to hold them with cold hands and also you dont drop them. You might drop the paper clip which would lead to a bit of cussing, but it should be easier to find.


All the best

OTT

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'If you didn't waste your youth, you never had one!'. Bloke in the public bar circa 1970

I won't say. It may just have been a rogue packet.

(But I'm not buying others just to find out).


I'll give the needle threader and paper clip ideas a whirl. Thanks