Drag-Free Drift: Leader Design and Presentation Techniques for Fly Fishing

To fool a trout, a leader must drop a fly lightly on the water and then let it drift Drag-Free Drift: Leader Design and Presentation Techniques for Fly Fishing.
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How to avoid micro drag I've had the problem with Austrian grayling apparently taking the fly only to find no-one home when I lifted. This was especially prevalent during "blizzard" hatches of BWOs.

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Fishing from downstream meant I was pulling the fly out of their mouth. Read Charles Ritz to see what I mean. It is interesting to note that many Continental anglers fish dries downstream, and there is a reason for this. I don't think it is too much to do with drag, micro- or otherwise - it is just a question of putting your fly directly over the fish.

How to avoid micro drag Well in one occasion I saw a nice grayling behind a rock and rising up to the surface very frequently and almost in a rhythm. It seemed almost effortless.

Joseph A. Kissane - Drag-Free Drift - Leader Design And Presentation Techniques For Fly Fishing

I was casting my line in almost a 90 degr. Angle to the current which was not very fast. Even with my scene net I could not find out what he was taking so I figured it at least to be small. Used as much flies as I had and I though made sense in that situation. With nothing more than the result as I described above. The fish was not at least disturbed by this going on. This fact as well as the fact that I never felt any contact with the fish makes me believe that I am not pulling the fly out of his mouth. At some moment I thought that these were not last minute rejections of the fly and "near misses" at all.

Instead, my flies and presentation of the fly was apparently good enough for the fish to start his rise to the surface. But at some moment not necessarily last minute he decides not to take it.

But rather than making a more energy consuming turn back to the bottom he simply completes his movement to the surface and maintains his effortless rhythm. Including disturbing the water surface making me think he took the fly.

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I immediately thought that this is a very strange way of thinking. Too much humanlike thinking put on a fish. But on the other hand if the fish really had the intent to take the fly every time he came up, but misses for example because of the alternative that he can't see it just before he takes it with his mouth So there must be something else. Shorter leaders give you better control in casting, both in accuracy and in making curve casts.

With a short leader and short tippet, you can easily make positive curve casts by casting sidearm and forcing the leader to hook around with a slightly overpowered cast and an abrupt stop of the rod. An additional underappreciated advantage is the ability to make the cast land fly-first. A fly-first presentation is much like the positive curve cast, but in a vertical plane. By throwing a high backcast and a forward cast angled slightly down, you can make an abrupt stop of the rod and make the fly kick over to touch the water before the short leader and line.

The fly will drift drag-free for a longer time than if the line or leader lands first because a line-first presentation gives the current time to create a drag-inducing bow in the line even before the fly has touched down.


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At the other extreme, spring creek leaders need to be long and fine with fine tippets. I often cast directly upstream over fish feeding in slower bankside currents, and there a longer tippet is usually called for. The longer tippet in those situations is to give you a larger margin for error in gauging the casting distance. If you cast a hair too far upstream with a short tippet, a wary fish will usually spook if he sees the heavy part of the leader.

A longer tippet lets you get away with a bigger mistake in distance. Leader Design Design of a good leader involves some tradeoffs.

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The most basic is between rapid turnover that promotes accuracy and the flexibility and slack that promote freer drifts. Leaders with a stiff butt and a short abrupt taper offer a positive turnover and cause your fly to go where you aim it.

Leaders with a more flexible butt and a long gradual taper give a gentler turnover and a freer drift of the fly. On the other hand, they are harder to control, less accurate and especially affected by the wind. Most helpful customer reviews on Amazon. I'fe always preferred my own hand tied leaders. Kissane updates the science and art of the hand tied leader. I am especially intrigued by furled and twisted braided and tapered leaders. One of the best books on drift fly fishing and the importance of appropriate leader construction.

Well worth the buy and read.

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