leader for walleye

Post by **Bondo** » Thu May 11, 2006 9:57 am

Any advice for what to use as a heavy leader on a fly rod for walleye. Would I use a one piece heavy mono line or perhaps some fireline/powerpro/spiderwire etc. Can you use the braided or thermally treated lines as leaders in fly fishing. Need something heavy enough to withstand the abrasions from sharp walleye teeth. I feel like friggen pavlov's dog here waiting for the season to open.

Post by **Todd B.** » Thu May 11, 2006 10:32 am

Bondo,

I've caught a fair number of eyes while fishing for SM without a leader with no bite offs. Now when I'm specificially targeting say pike/walleye I've made up my own leaders with 12" bite gaurd of 30# power pro. I terminated it with a simple snap (not a snap swivle.) You could do the same with heavy flourocarbon as well. In either case be sure to use a double uni knot to join your bite gaurd to your leader and a polymar not to tie on the snap.

If you're still conserned about bite offs you can always used nylon coated knottable wire (i.e. TYGer Leader or Berkley Steelon)

Cheers,
Todd

Post by **mosquito** » Thu May 11, 2006 11:05 am

I use 6-8# mono and have never had bite offs. Unlike pikes' teeth wallyes teeths don't have sharp side edges and don't cut the mono.

Post by **Gravelguy4** » Fri May 12, 2006 8:21 am

I would imagine you could get away with 10# powerpro (lighter, might turn over better). Unless you think you might get the odd pike. then maybe go heavier. i've only caught a few walleye on a fly rod but none broke me off or even nicked my 8# mono leader.

good luck with opener.

Keith