NO-See-Um Fluorocarbon Tippet

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Fluorocarbon Tippet The Best Leader to Fly Connection Possible

Fluorocarbon tippet has recently become very popular for fly fishing tippet material, even though the price is substantially higher than that of nylon material. Nothing beats practical experience and those that use fluorocarbon usually end up preferring it, especially when it comes to fishing nymphs and other flies fished below the surface of the water. Some use it for subsurface flies only and use nylon for dry flies. This probably represents the majority of those that use fluorocarbon tippet material.

The first thing anglers try to do, when getting familiar with fluorocarbon, is to try to compare it with nylon they have most likely been using for years. Nylon is slightly better on wet knot strength, but by very little. Nylon has a slightly higher dry breaking strength, but after soaking in the water, fluorocarbon has a slightly higher breaking strength.

Fluorocarbon monofilament is almost impervious to water. Its physical properties change very, very little after it has been in the water soaking a long time. The breaking strength of wet fluorocarbon monofilament remain essentially the same as dry fluorocarbon, and  so does the stiffness of the material. It has more memory that nylon.