Im talking about when it comes to leader length selection.

From what I can gather if you have a pond thats 10ft deep a 10ft leader would be too short, if you wanted your point fly to be touching the bottom.

I know I could just judge it for myself but if I wanted to test it this could be expensive in leader and Im just looking for a rough estimate.

Thanks in advance guys

You can do some pretty complex maths which takes into account wind speed, effect of temperature and ambient air pressure, weight of the point fly, hydronamic resistance of the combined flies, drag of the flyline in water, speed of retrieve etc.

Or... you can do what everyone else does and guess. The more often you guess the better you get at guessing and the less time you waste tying new leaders.

Some very talented guessers manage to get it right most of the time.

Cheers,

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Thanks Adz, I thought that might be the case.

I work beside a mathmetical genius (he makes Carol Vorderman look slow), I might give the problem to him and see what he can come up with!

Until then Ill just keep wasting leader

Thanks anyway

Hi', Ping. If you are using a floating line, and don't want to lengthen your leader, you could add a sink tip, either braided or a polyleader. You could also try changing to a very slow intermediate. That way, when you have sussed out its sinking rate, by practise, you will benefit by having a more level retrieve, so the fish at the feeding level, bottom or higher in the water, will see all the flies on your leader, assuming you have a team of wets or nymphs etc. Cheers TC
PS The floater is the easiest line to cast, but it doesn't give the most level retrieves when you are using sunken flies.

Thanks for the tip mate I will try that in future!