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Welding your loops

A simple 7-step guide will show you how to make small, neat loops on your fly lines. Just like the pros - just neater.
Now you can finally say goodbye to big clumsy loops, acetone, glue and sewing processes. Doing it this way will give you, small, smooth and round loops.

11 years ago
Shooting lines

Shooting lines are used with shooting heads and the setup is very popular with many saltwater and salmon anglers as well as steelheaders. This article tries to cover the different types of shooting or running lines available on the market and talk about their good and bad sides.

15 years ago
Shooting heads

In this article I will try to cover some advantages and disadvantages of the shooting head over the WF line, and I will thoroughly describe the way you can configure a good shooting head system for your rod.

23 years ago
Making loops
Loops

This article covers loops used for connecting fly lines to backing and leaders and shows you how to make them and use them.

24 years ago
Juro Mukai's shooting head setup

Juro Mukai is a old aquaintance from the Flyfish@ mailing list. I had the pleasure of fishing with him in the Seattle area, and was intrigued by the 'modular' line setup that he uses on his two hand spey rod for steelhead.

29 years ago

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