Fly Fishing Leaders
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fly fishing ( how long should the leader be?)?
Your leader is the part of the fly line that is supposed to be invisible or at least less-visible. It's the part of your tackle that you use to fool the fish. The longer the buffer between your very-visible fly line and your fly, the sneakier you can be. Different situations call for different lengths of leader. Fishing the surface of very clear stillwaters may require 10 feet of leader and tippet on the end of that. Fishing a small, fast stream may only require 6 feet of leader.
If you are a beginner fly angler, I would recommend starting with a 6-foot leader. Longer leaders are generally harder to cast, especially when you're still learning. Prepared fly fishing leaders, like tapered leaders, come in fixed lengths from 4 feet to up to 12 feet and maybe longer. Try a 6-foot leader with a foot of tippet and see how you like it. If you're just using a length of monofilament or fluorocarbon line (as some folks do), cut yourself something in the 6-foot range.
Tippet is the extra-sneaky portion of tackle that you tie your flies to. Tippet has a couple purposes. One is to add life to your leader -- the tippet is expendable and makes it so you don't have to keep cutting bits off your leader when you change flies. Another purpose of tippet is to refine your attack on the fish by using various tippet weights and visibility. A foot or two of tippet is all you should need, but sometimes you can use a longer tippet to increase your stealth.
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