Leader / Tippet Rings

[Wildfisher]

Have  to do something here - I am wasting far too many tapered leaders with all the cutting and tying.  Which size / make are best?   I notice Sportfish (a company  I like to deal with because of great service) sell 1 and 2mm rings.

[haresear]

Riverge are the best I've tried Fred. Some of the others have a sharp edge which can flatten your leader at the knot. I use a uni knot to attach these, as the knot tightens round the main line as opposed to the half blood.

Alex

[Wildfisher]

Riverge are the best I've tried Fred. Some of the others have a sharp edge which can flatten your leader at the knot. I use a uni knot to attach these, as the knot tightens round the main line as opposed to the half blood.

Alex

what size are the ones you use Alex?

[haresear]

1.5mm for me too. I think Roman Moser does 1mm, but the 1.5 work fine.

Alex

[hibsman]

I have a pack and they are great, one tapered leader and one ring for whole of last season ... not sure what size although they are tiny.

The setup I use is one ring on the tapered leader to which I attach my normal cast.  Last year I attached ring to tapered leader at about 5 feet down ... a small problem was that the tapered leader I had bought was quite thick 5 feet down and my normal cast material was quite thin and so it didn't feel quite right.   I will correct this year by attaching the ring where the diameter of tapered leader is similar to diameter of my normal cast material.

Chris