Fluoro Tippet versus Fluoro Line

[Cam Buglione]

I had a nice weekend despite this week's rain and cold fishing Spring Creek outside of State College, PA.  I had originally intended to fish Penns Creek, but most rivers in that area were blown out.  A friend of mine that I had met up with used an interesting set up - it was a drop shot nymphing rig, but instead of using fluorocarbon tippet to make the rig he just used a larger (and cheaper) spool of Fluorocarbon line meant for a spin fishing rod.   The fish didnt seem to mind at all - does anyone else prefer using line to tippet, or see any potential drawbacks to it?

[Richard Farino]

Line and tippet are both level.  No difference, other than formulas, break strength, and diameter.  It’s cheaper because of the massive amount of product manufactured for the conventional industry vs. a smaller manufacturer extruding similar material for tippet spools.

 

Drawbacks?  Besides having to keep larger spools sitting around to refill your smaller tippet spools, and not being able to match up the diameters on your leaders, no.

I used to buy guide spools (110 yards) from the manufacturers.  I didn’t do a ton of guiding,  but I did a lot of fishing and I’d go thru a spool once every other year.

 

R

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[Carl Z.]

Tippet usually is also higher quality, with less variation across the length.  Tippet is only as good as the weakest point.  So for anything that I don't worry about breaking, I don't mind using spinning line.  For the last section, I prefer tippet material.  

But then I have a tippet gauge to measure the diameter and build my own leaders out of Maxima or Trilene.   

Also, the convenience is great with the little spools. The tippet spools that snap together are great to put on a lanyard, so I usually just buy rio tippet material and curse the manufacturers when they change spool designs.

Carl

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Carl Zmola

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 10:33 AM, Richard Farino <rfa...@gmail.com> wrote:

Line and tippet are both level.  No difference, other than formulas, break strength, and diameter.  It’s cheaper because of the massive amount of product manufactured for the conventional industry vs. a smaller manufacturer extruding similar material for tippet spools.

 

Drawbacks?  Besides having to keep larger spools sitting around to refill your smaller tippet spools, and not being able to match up the diameters on your leaders, no.

I used to buy guide spools (110 yards) from the manufacturers.  I didn’t do a ton of guiding,  but I did a lot of fishing and I’d go thru a spool once every other year.

 

R

 

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Subject: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Fluoro Tippet versus Fluoro Line

 

I had a nice weekend despite this week's rain and cold fishing Spring Creek outside of State College, PA.  I had originally intended to fish Penns Creek, but most rivers in that area were blown out.  A friend of mine that I had met up with used an interesting set up - it was a drop shot nymphing rig, but instead of using fluorocarbon tippet to make the rig he just used a larger (and cheaper) spool of Fluorocarbon line meant for a spin fishing rod.   The fish didnt seem to mind at all - does anyone else prefer using line to tippet, or see any potential drawbacks to it?

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[Bobby Davis]

I use berkley vanish for Fluorocarbon, and you can get up to 12lb test on what I call "pony spools" (not sure if that is the actual name), but they are the smaller spools that are about the same diameter as your tippet spools you buy at a fly shop.  They print the diameters on the spools and I matched those up to my Maxima spool kit.  If I remember correctly, 2# is 5x, 4# is 4x, 6# is 2x, 8# is 1x and 10# is 0x.  Way cheaper than buying frog hair FC or something and fits on tippet bars or whatever you call them.