It's not easy to convince me to change from the standard mono I use when nymphing. It's cheap and reliable, catches fish, what more could one want?

It's a different story with the dry fly though. My mono floats readily, it's a pain having to continually degrease it. So, I'm going to splash out on a spool of flouro. I want it to do/be the following:

1/ Sink readily without the need for a sinkant.

2/ Good knot strength

3/ Be reasonably thin, as I use drys down to size 18.

4/ Reasonably priced.

Any recomendations? I'm thinking of around 5lb breaking strain...

I go the other way round i.e fluoro sub surface and co-polymer for dry flys.

The main reason is it is hard to get a fluoro that is supple and fine enough for small dry flys while still having enough strength.

I use garboline (from carp angling shops) because it is very fine for its strength, supple, dependable and in 100m spools for what I would pay for 30 or 50m of fly fishing tippet. You have to degrease it but the same applies to fine fluoro because at low diameters the weight of fluoro is not enough to break surface tension anyway so you have to degrease just as much.

Joel

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Co Polymer for me too, only I let the tippet do what it wants. If it floats, okay, if it sinks, ditto.

It is more important to get the fly to land like a real one than to try vainly to make the tippet invisible. Fish pay very little attention to the tippet.

richard

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Thanks for the replies. I was under the impression that a floating leader deters fish from taking a dry fly, thanks for correcting me. I only considered flourocarbon due to its sinking qualities.

I'll stick with what I already have then, as it's pretty fine for its breaking strain.

Although flouro is denser than water, it is very difficult to get fine flouro to break the surface tension and so sink. So probably not much difference to regular mono in the finer sizes.

M

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