Leaders for sinking line

[Eric the awful fisherman]

I just got some sink tip fly line for my 7 weight. I'm looking to use it for streamers and craw patterns. I'm just not sure what I should tie to my fly line to make up the leader any help or input is appreciated 

[jtram]

Take the back 3 ft of an old tapered leader, tie on 2 ft of 8 or 10 lb fluorocarbon  and fish it. 

[DainW]

The thing about sinking line is that if your leader is too long and your fly isn't heavy enough, the line will get down, but not the fly.  I usually like to go no more than 3-5 feet on my leader, sometimes you can get away with as little as 18" from fly line to fly though. You can do what Jtram suggests or you can just tie on a straight piece of floro. It depends on what you're fishing for and the size of streamers that you're going to be throwing. If I'm smallmouth fishing on a creek, I usually just tie on a 3 ft piece of 3x. If it's the high water streamer bite on the white or norfork, then you might go 0 or 1X. 

[Danoinark]

I've just used a couple feet of straight 6lb mono...seems to work fine.

 

[Lancer09]

Depends on the size of the fly but I like to just fish 3 to 4 feet of straight ten pound. 

[Eric the awful fisherman]

Do you just use a loop to loop connection farm your mono or fluoro to the fly line loop? Or is there a better knot? Thanks again! 

[snagged in outlet 3]

Loop to loop.  No more than 3-4 feet. Sink tip line will turn over a VW on 3' of 10 pound maxima. 

 

[Eric the awful fisherman]

Awesome. Thank you for the advice hopefully I can get out this weekend and put up a report 

[Lancer09]

Have you ever toyed around with sinking/sink tip lines and big flies? make sure to duck! For what it's worth when I am throwing a sinking line I like unweighted flies much more than something weighted. If you are casting big wind resistant flies you'll want 10 or 12 to turn it over. anything less than that and your fly won't flip and will pretty much just collapse when you shoot. 

I just use a loop to loop connection like SIO3.