When you are using a mono or flouro leader, what do you do if you break off the leader? do you carry small spools of leader material or just cut a few feet off a spool of line and re-tie? Do you carry extra line with you or just change rods?

1 minute ago, N.Y. Yankee said:

When you are using a mono or flouro leader, what do you do if you break off the leader? do you carry small spools of leader material or just cut a few feet off a spool of line and re-tie? Do you carry extra line with you or just change rods?

Yes.

A-Jay

I just carry the original spools of what I use for leader material in one of the pockets of one of my bags (in the canoe I have 2-3700 bags and 2-3600 bags).

 

I start with 6'-8' - don't discard/tie on a new leader until it's down to 3' or less.

56 minutes ago, N.Y. Yankee said:

When you are using a mono or flouro leader, what do you do if you break off the leader? do you carry small spools of leader material or just cut a few feet off a spool of line and re-tie? Do you carry extra line with you or just change rods?

I do both.

I use mono and FC leader material, not "line", for leaders, and have spools of it on board to replace a break-off.  Which is rare, but even in the situation where I've cut off a number of times and the leader gets too short, I need replacement.  And I have spools of various pound tests of leader material.  Not line.  

All of the above when I still did leaders. You can waste half the day retying so I changed rods the most. Retied several over lunch if need be. 

1 hour ago, N.Y. Yankee said:

When you are using a mono or flouro leader, what do you do if you break off the leader? do you carry small spools of leader material or just cut a few feet off a spool of line and re-tie? Do you carry extra line with you or just change rods?

always have lines with me.

Just cut a few feet off a spool of line and retie if available. Bout as fancy as I get

I use mono or YZH for leaders. I bring a partial filler spool if I need to replace a leader. 

One tip I will give is unless you are buying a specialized stretchy floro shock leader like sublime fc100, don’t waste the money on “leader material” lines, just get a spool of high quality line. I like mono for 90% of my leaders. Only time I will really switch to floro is if it’s super clear, like over 10ft of visibility, or I want to use 25+Lbs line then I’ll go to fc100 because it’s thin and super strong. Mono for most applications makes a much better leader than floro IMO, just pick your favorite mono and tie it on. If you are going to go with floro, pick a quality one like sunline sniper/assassin, abraseX, tatsu, gama ect. In my opinion most “leader” floros are just overpriced 30 yard spools of normal floro, besides fc100.

I bought flouro leader.  It feels like flouro line to me. I’ll buy line next time and get more by spending the same or less.  Dunno. 

Leader material is stiffer than line which helps to keep blade bait hooks from tangling.

That sunline fc 100 shock flouro is really the only dedicated "leader" I have.  Everything else is just snipped off of a spool.  That said, the fc100 is pretty amazing and I think it'll take over all of my heavier applications.

 

scott