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Fly Fishing for Muskies
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April 23, 2006 - 11:03 am
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I am ready to try flyfishing for muskie. Just a quick question about leaders. I was going to run a straight section of Fluorocarbon, anyone use anything else? Thanks, Scott

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April 23, 2006 - 11:41 am
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Me personally no I have not done it, however, I ran into some guys from the Trout Unlimited chapter at the Traverse City Expo I worked and we got to talking about flyfishing for pike and muskies. You may want to try a trout fishing chatboard or something flyfishing related maybe they will have some ideas they are willing to share.
Kevin

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April 23, 2006 - 9:04 pm
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Fluorocarbon should be fine. I use hard-finish Maxima Chameleon, which is stiff enough to turn over well without flopping. Use something in the 20-lb. area if you are going to go non-tapered and just a single weight. If you taper, try going from 40# (at the fly line) to 30# to 20# at the bait, and the fly should present itself a little better than with the straight 20#. But it will all work. Then of course, a short length of nylon-coated braided wire of around 20# in front of the fly. Tyger wire would probably work as well as the standard coated wire.
For the complete treatment, see Larry Dahlberg's article in the May 1992 In-Fisherman if you know somebody that has the issues going back that far.

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April 24, 2006 - 11:20 am
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Looks like Im going to have start wearing a helment while fishing aboard the ss Abbatoy..LOL Laugh Laugh Laugh 😯

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April 24, 2006 - 11:58 am
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3-6' of 30# hard mono or stiff flouro will work. You can surgeon knot a wire bite tippet onto the leader, 30# coated wire is all you'll need. There's no need to taper it when your leader doesn't need to be longer than 3'.

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April 24, 2006 - 12:07 pm
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Todd I thought you always wore a helment and a bib anyway??? Laugh

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April 24, 2006 - 1:23 pm
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Laugh Laugh True, and I pull my boat with the "short bus"..LOL Laugh

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April 24, 2006 - 1:52 pm
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atleast you got my meaning, do you take along a good supply of windex to clean up after the window lickin' 😀

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April 24, 2006 - 3:45 pm
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😯 Yes, but its for the fish slime not drool..LOL Laugh Laugh Laugh

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