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Leader - Rio Fly Clips
- Code: A-RFC
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Price: $4.97
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RIO’S FLY CLIPS make it quick and easy to change flies, and prevents leader and tippet sections getting too short. Tie the appropriate sized clip on to the end of your leader and either twist or clip on your fly.
Rio Fly Clip Size Fly Size
Size 1 12-16
Size 2 8-12
RIO recommends the RIO TWIST CLIPS for larger streamers and Salmon/steelhead patterns, and the RIO Fly Clip for smaller dries, nymphs and soft hackles.
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- Code: A-RPL7
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Price: $5.49
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Powerflex leaders help you cast better and fish more effectively. The powerful butt section provides unsurpassed wind penetration and easily turns over heavy indicator rigs, while the soft, flexible tippet delivers tiny dries with delicate precision. Advanced copolymer strength allows confident hook sets and greater landing percentages.
- Agressive high-performance taper
- Long, powerful butt section with soft, flexible tippet
- Maximum strength and abrasion resistance
- Nymph/Indicator Rigs
- Streamers
- Dry Flies
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Leader - Maxima Chameleon Leader
- Code: A-MXCH
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Price: $7.00
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Maxima Chameleon is an excellent choice for building the butt section of a leader, particularly if you are Euro Nymphing or High Sticking. This leader is stiff and heavy enough to cast, but light enough to eliminate sag.
This leader is named Chameleon because it changes its color hues to match the surrounding light and water conditions.
27 Yards
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- Code: A-TFTL
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Price: $12.96
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TroutHunter Fluorocarbon Tapered Leaders are made from the absolute highest quality Fluorocarbon. A longer butt section aids in turning over larger streamers and nymphs. Put through our high quality tests, TroutHunter fluorocarbon leaders offer superior strength, abrasion resistance, and invisibility making them an easy choice for large spooky trout as well as saltwater, anadromous fish, and lakes.
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Leader - Kiff Leader Looper
- Code: A-KLL
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Price: $4.99
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Why every fly fishing tool kit needs a Leader Looper:
- Slides easily onto the reel seat, providing a very handy T-piece pivot point to loop your leader around.
- Keeps your leader fly-line connection outside the rod guides, away from the reel to reduce frustration and rod tip breaks.
- Prevents common problems/annoyances like losing your leader in your reel spool…or kinking your leader by wrapping it around the reel seat.
- Made of super tough silicone.
- Installs in seconds.
- Available in multiple colors to suite your style!
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- Code: A-AMNC
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Price: $5.49
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?Amnesia? Monofilament is memory free. Pull on a coiled piece of line, and it straightens out.
This material is great for building a Euro Nymphing Sighter, as it is highly visible.
In addition, if you want a highly visible butt section to your leader, this is a great option. Each Spool holds 328 feet of leader.
Also Available in Red.
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- Code: A-RTEN
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Price: $13.00
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RIO’S TECHNICAL EURO NYMPH LEADER has been designed for the ultimate in performance when fishing any of the European nymphing techniques. The extra-long, ultra-thin leader is incredibly sensitive to the subtlest of grabs, and the two-tone indicator tippet tied to the front end has high contrast and is very easy to see. The leader finishes with a RIO tippet ring so anglers can quickly and easily attach the tippet of their choice.
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- Code: A-AFACM
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Price: $8.99
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NOTE: These hand tied leaders no longer terminate with a tippet ring.
NYMPH LEADER: Our CastMax Target Nymph / Wet Fly Leaders are designed to turnover fast, efficiently, and get your flies down deep and quickly after landing, whether you are using a weighted rig or a non-weighted presentation. Our specialized CastMax Target Nymph / Wet Fly leaders are tied in 4 sections, beginning with a .020 butt and terminating at various tippet sizes, depending your preference. Leader diameters are much thinner in the butt sections than commercial tapered leaders which gives you more control and more delicate presentations. The butt sections are stiffer Maxima Chameleon for best turnover and distance. Total length is 9'. Designed for use with 3wt -6wt fly lines.
STREAMER LEADER: Our CastMax Target Streamer Leaders are designed to turnover fast, efficiently, and get your flies down deep and quickly after landing, whether you are using a weighted rig or a non-weighted presentation. Since some streamers can be weighty, a gradual taper transition is critical over the length of the leader to provide for good loops and perfect turnover. Our specialized CastMax Target Streamer leaders are tied in 4 sections, beginning with a .020 butt and terminating various tippet sizes, depending your preference, for the most precise taper and presentation. Leader diameters are much thinner in the butt sections than commercial tapered leaders which gives you more control and more delicate presentations. The butt sections are stiffer Maxima Chameleon for best turnover and distance, while the most critical thinner sections are of softer Maxima Ultragreen mono. Total length 7.5'. Designed for use with 4wt - 8wt fly lines.
All of our CastMax Leaders are tied with a perfection loop in the butt section for quick tie-on.
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Leader - Kiff Leader Straightener
- Code: A-KLS
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Price: $4.95
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Why every fly fishing tool kit needs a Leader Straightener:
- Super tough.
- Made of pure silicone which will never heat up no matter how long a line you run through the straightener.
- Prevents the heat that causes materials like leather and rubber to break down and weaken over time. So KIFF products last longer.
- Works with all sizes of leader from thick 50 lb. lines to small superfine 8X tippet.
- Low profile allows easy pocket storage or hang from a zinger for easy access.
- Keeps straight leader limp to help catch more fish.
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- Code: A-AFAEM
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Price: $10.49
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STANDARD: Our Standard EuroMax leaders are perfect for those who are just starting out with euro nymphing and learning to cast this type of rig. It is the easiest version of our EuroMax line of leaders to cast because of the larger diameter butt section and they transfer energy well. It is also the best option for fishing upstream with tuck cast presentations, or using heavier flies/streamers. Great for dry-dropper rigs when using larger dries with more air resistance. The trade-off is that you will have more sag at distance due to the larger diameter butt section. Our hand-built modular euro-nymphing sighter leaders have top-quality mono materials to ensure enough mass for water load casting, but minimal diameter to ensure as drag-free a drift as possible and allow for proper presentation. Our Standard EuroMax leaders start with a 20lb (0.017) Maxima Chameleon butt section (various length), tapering to 15 lb (0.015) mid-section, to a 12lb (0.013) multi-color sighter. They also include a high-quality 2mm tippet ring to preserve your leader with your various tippet applications over time.
MICRO: Our thinnest diameter and most sensitive version of our EuroMax leaders; therefore, you will have less sag due to the thinner butt section. The micro thin profile is for those who are already experienced in euro style casting, provides for the ultimate in strike detection and sensitivity, and best drift performance in windy conditions. The MicroThin leader is best for maintaining dead drifts with across current presentations. The micro version is more difficult to cast for distance, especially in windy conditions or with a dry-dropper set-up, since you have less mass in the line and therefore does not transfer energy as well, so that is the trade-off. Hand-built modular euro-nymphing sighter leaders using top-quality mono materials to ensure enough mass for water load casting, but minimal diameter to ensure as drag-free a drift as possible and allow for proper presentation. Our EuroMax Micro Thin leaders start with a 10lb (0.012) Maxima Chameleon butt section (various length), tapering to 8lb (0.011) colored transition mid-section, to a 6lb (0.009) multi-color sighter. They also include a high-quality 2mm tippet ring to preserve your leader with your various tippet applications over time.
Spot Your Sighter Instantly with the Sighter Tracer, which is included on both the STANDARD and MICRO. It is important to be able to locate your sighter immediately after the cast. If lighting or contrast is poor, this can sometimes be hard to do, and meanwhile you are losing an important part of your drift searching for the sighter, especially if you dropped the sighter under the surface. Our Sighter Tracer solves that problem for you. This is a bright fluro orange, adjustable knot with about 1" tags that is tied on the transition section, above the sighter. You can move this knot up and down the transition section to wherever suits you best and for present conditions. After the cast, the Sighter Tracer gets your eyes on the leader and sighter immediately, letting you get your drift dialed in instantly. It also doubles a very sensitive extra indicator that lets you spot the most delicate of takes.
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