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[BwiBwi]

Hi, is it worth it to use fluorocarbon tippet? Thank you

[Steelhead King]

Its all depends on what type of fishing you gonna do.. If you gonna fish for Bone fish, permit and other tropical fish, its a MUST. Otherwise, its not nessary to use such expensive tippet.  Also, one thing to keep in mind, don't go cheap on fluro leader use the best or not to use at all. I highly recommand (frog hair), (seaguard) or ( deep blue).

[Stone]

I also use flurocarbon when fishing spring creeks and while chironamid fishing.  This February, I'll be making my annual spring creek fishing trip and 4x fluro or 6x mono is all you can use on trout up to 10lbs in a small creek.  In years past, I have seen them scatter at the sight of 5x fluro or 5x mono.

Flurocarbon also is a lot more abrasion resistant and UV resistant than mono...but as mentioned before, you have to use good quality ones.  One other thing to remember, since flurocarbon is a lot harder material than mono, when you splice a flurocarbon tippet to a monofilament leader, be sure to use mono that is at least .01" thicker or more than the fluro.  Otherwise, when tension is applied to the knot, the fluro will just slice through your mono leader.  And flurocarbon stays in the environment pretty much forever...so please clean up after yourselves when you use fluro and bring your garbage home.

[rln]

I have used both "Frog Hair" and "Deep Blue" made by Gamma Technologies. Don't waste your money. If you are going to purchase Fluoro carbon, stick with Seaguar. Their product "Grand Max" is the best by far.

[Sterling C]

Does anyone here use flourocarbon leaders while targetting carp on the fly?

[BwiBwi]

Okay Berry's carry's only RIO and Fenwick. Are they any good?

[Stone]

I used RIO in the past, and didn't really have much problems.  I'm using Umpqua right now...again, no problems.

[BwiBwi]

Is there a tackle shop in Vancouver that sells Umpqua products?

[Stone]

Is there a tackle shop in Vancouver that sells Umpqua products?

M&Y Vancouver, and I would imagine Anglers West would probably also carry them.  THe exact name of the product that I'm using right now is the Umpqua Deceiver flourocarbon tippet.