How I Tie a Leader For Fly Fishing 

More easy to do guide stuff.

You're a cool dude Alvin Doodoo. I look forward to watching more of your videos.

Alvin your the best, no stuffy fly fishing information, jut the real stuff. Your spirit is amazing, even watching you on Utube put me along side, trying to see and cast to a cruising fish.

Thanks for the video, I mostly fish for large mouth bass, it seams like some video I watch on making leaders they make it complicated. So thank you for keeping it simple.

After teaching myself how to do this pre RU-vid, it's nice to see I wasn't that wrong. I mostly fish lakes and run 40, 25, 6lb for poppers. They never see it coming 🤣

Super helpful. Thanks for keeping it simple (unlike some other tutorials I’ve seen)

Alvin! Thank you so very much for the thoughtful content and organized presentation. I always take away some knowledge! ed

Great vid, great content on your channel all around. Thanks for the advice and keep up the great work brother!!

Alvin, I am new to fishing and have now watched about 50 of your videos for redfish fly fishing. Equipment, technique, flies, etc. and wow these are all fantastic. I never knew that fly fishing could be so involved and now know it really appeals to me. It is a pleasure listening to someone that not only knows the subject matter but is excellent at teaching the information. I learned so much and feel much better prepared to get started with the correct equipment. Thank you for spending the time in making and posting all the great information. I look forward to buying, setting up, and practicing so I can start catching some redfish here in Pensacola. Keep up the great work. Brian

Just what I was looking for. No B.S. and straight to it!

Thanks Alvin! Another great video.

Nice , when you end up tying a lot of leaders throughout the year this is the thicket. I have a 9’ leader brain . Rods 9’ divided by 3 . When I get into trouble is with a 7.5’ rod :-) thanks for the video

Just the one I was waiting on! Thanks for the content Alvin!

So glad I found ya, I like easy but functional you are the man thanks 👍

Great video as always! Making leaders has saved me so much money over the years. I'm up here in the northeast fishing for stripers a lot. One trick I learned from a guide friend for inshore/weedy situations is to leave a little tag end on the surgeons knot to help keep a few of weeds off the fly!

Glad to see this been putting together some stillwater kit to target a variety of species so having a nice bass leader is helpful to pair with my trout stuff. For California striper in the Delta I run level 20lb or 30lb fluro to my sinking lines so no need to get fancy there.

Just discovered your channel, I really dig this video. Excited to see more. Gracias

Love it bro. Super helpful. Just ran out of leaders and was not wanting to go buy more. Keep it up!!

Awesome thanks!

Great info! Thanks

Hey Alvin. Appreciate your videos! There are a lot of videos on so many things, and hundreds if not 1000’s on fly. Fishing. But really like yours in TEXAS Bass and Redfish!!! You are very good communicator and instructor. Keep up the good work! If you are ever in upper coast, SE Texas…. Not quite Louisiana come fish on Sabine lake and Keith Lake!!!

I have a pile of line but I made some leaders for redfish that went 50-30-20. I never got a bite. But I had a blast. Keep it up sir

Wow! I'm learning a lot from you.

Thanks!

Great video. Thanks for all you do for the fly fishing community. When you throw clousers or large wooly buggers or air resistant flies, do you ever use micro swivels to minimize line twist? Thanks.

thanks mate

Thanks for the great straight forward tutorial. I've noticed with leaders that increased stealth is usually done with longer and/or lighter tippets. In my conversational fishing I use fluorocarbon to go stealthier. Are there reasons fluoro isn't popular in fly fishing.

Great video.. as usual.. Are those orvis tippet spools you are using or are they leader material?

Nice. What I like to do is to attach the tippet with a loop to loop OR a small solid ring. This way I don't lose a bit of the taper section everytime I need to tie another tippet.

Great video my flyfishing, Brother! What's your take on "hard" mono vs regular mono vs fluro? Honestly, I usually get whatever quality stuff I can find at the cheapest price. The bass here in Oklahoma don't seem to care. I'm sure there may be certain situations that call for each.

Thank you for the great videos. I am a beguinner and have a question. You are using 60/40/20 pound tippet material to make the leader for 7/8 line. There is a site from New Zeeland and the Orvis site that use 30/20/15 for 7/8 weight line. Is there a benefit to using the heavier first two sections? Longer cast?? Thank you and Happy new Year

Lovin the Texas flag as your backdrop! Great video as always homie!🤙🏼

Would a uni to uni knot be a better knot than the blood knot?

so can you do any pound of line for the leader? like can you do 20/10/5 or is it better to do heavier line?

Another great how to! I would much rather tie my own leaders. Guess I need to get some mono, learn those knots, & get busy.

Could you use uni to uni? Or would it be better to use the blood knot

Excellent video. One suggestion would be to mention the diameters of the leader material instead of just the pound test. I was surprised you were using a 60 lb test butt section until I looked up the diameter of 60 lb Superstrong Plus and saw that it's only 0.025 inch compared to 0.024 for 40 lb Maxima.

Which knot do you use to tie the fly to the tippet?

Forgive me if you’ve talked about this before, but will you kick me off your boat/raft if I show up with a micro-swivel or tippet ring on my leader? I’ve had the swivel on my sinking setup for a little bit - makes fly changes easy but is a grass/weeds/algae magnet.

OK. So I have tied leaders along the same lines as laid out in your video using Maxima Ultragreen mono. And I have to say that I did not like the way they rolled out. These were 9ft leaders between 2x and 4x for bass and trout. Recently a colleague showed me how to make twisted, not furled, leaders. So far I very much like the way these case both dries and streamers. They also do not have memory in them since part of the process is pulling the mono straight before starting. Question: have you tried this technique and if so what are your thoughts/comments? Many thanks.

Would a double uni knot be ok for connecting the butt and midsection?

Whats your favorite ferrule wax?

Alvin, why not a furled leader? Easier to make, great presentation, at least for me.

Do you buy your line directly through Orvis?

Are you using mono to mono to fluorocarbon?

I like a longer butt section. For me. Please try with a 8wt line. 6’ of 40 pound to 3’ of 20 pound No mid section or transition section. Butt section and tippet. 9’ leader. 6 feet of 40 pound Mono for the butt section then blood knot to a 3 foot section of 20 pound fluorocarbon. We catch allot of Reds and bass with this set up. Alvin that formula turns the large flies over great and larger terrestrials too. Please give it a try. Thank you. Cory.

As simple as it look still can't get the knot tieing don't know if people fingers are in the way or just bad eyesight maybe for us slow folks a drawing would help