Taneycomo leader

[steveearle]

Can someone give me the quick rundown...I couldn't find it in the search feature....Specifically the top half...what are you using for the 20lb./large section? Thanks in advance.

[bgault]

15 hours ago, steveearle said:

Can someone give me the quick rundown...I couldn't find it in the search feature....Specifically the top half...what are you using for the 20lb./large section? Thanks in advance.

I believe I have seen other posts where "Sunset Amnesia" has been identified as the section that is connected to the fly line. (top half)

I'm also interested in why a "Taneycomo Leader" is somehow better than just a regular tapered leader? What are it's advantages? The only reasons that I have seen in postings is that when you make your own with Amnesia+Invisx, etc. it is cheaper.  Is it fished differently? Does it make presentation better? etc.

[tjm]

Don't know a thing about Taneycomo, but if you type in "leader" in the search in this forum (upper Taneycomo) you get 146 pages of returns,  some for casting and some for fly.

If you want a leader for fly, a stiffer nylon such as Mason or Chameleon seems to better turn the rigs over, Amnesia can actually be the fly line. Diameter or stiffness might be more important than pound test. Here are three links to leader building formulas; http://www.americancastingassoc.org/casting-gear/equipment/leader-formulas.html

  http://www.macbrownflyfish.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/leader-formulas.pdf

http://www.flyfisherman.com/editorial/harveys-new-leader-formula/152361#

fish won't pay attention to the leader except for the few inches of tippet that is near the fly, within their cone of vision, so the entire leader could be all one size (2# or 30#) except for the mechanics of energy transfer and turnover,  and the physics doesn't change by location.