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Instead to make a blood knot or a micro
loop at the end of your leader to tie your tippet, you can tie a
micro seamless ring, you can get them from your flyfishing
shop or through the Internet. They
are made of stainless steel,
diameter 2 to
3 mm (3/32 to 2/16") , sell by 10 to 20 and cost
between 0,25/ 0,3€ (£0.12/0.2 or $0.3/0.4) the ring.
The main disavandtage of these rings,
they are hard to get, expensive and hard to find if you spill
them on the floor.
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discussed on the Sexyloop board : http://www.sexyloops.co.uk/
you can replace these stainless rings by
rings taken from a small chain necklace (costume jewelry
shops), most of them are made of
copper or nickel and the rings are as strong as stainless
steel.
With a chain like the one on the right (only
less than half left) you have hundred rings and it cost me less
than 5€ ( £3 or $6) |
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Tie
the end of your leader to the chain first ring, then under
tension, with a small wire cutter, cut open the 2nd ring.
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you can tie your tippet to the ring
These rings are small, unobtrusives,
strong enough to handle big fish. The rounded wire shape doesn't
cut the monofilament
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can as well use them to build your leader for a team of flies, it
saves rebuilding the leader when your dropper get short. |
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