I've been fishing the f&f since the med to late 90s mostly on Cumberland, first read about the f&f in Bassmaster, they told about how they worked and looked, I told a couple young men that went to school with my sons, the first ones they made were funny looking to say the least, they called me one day after they went to Cumberland and said we caught some fish on them f&f things LOL, and I asked if they would take me (please) and they did, and we really caught um, Bassmaster in a later issue had a pitcher of a Bullet bait co. Charlie Nuckols f&f we saw how funny ours looked, so my fly's looked some better these days, once we got the longer pols our leaders were 7 or 8 ft mainly so if they got hung we could get our fly back, that depth caught us a lot of fish, I have tried fishing deeper and know that they can be caught deeper, but I seem to go back to the 7 to 8 ft depth, a confidence thing guess, thanks Tim for the kind words, hope we get to go soon, oh say hey to "Bill Dance"LOLOriginally Posted by bassmaster
Hey Gary (Floatman) what about that leader length......
No seriously, Gary knows as much about the FNF as anyone. And he makes some mean flys to! Gary says (and me) that a 7-8 foot leader does and will catch em most of the time. ONLY if the shallower presentation doesn't work, will I go to maybe 10. I think everyone (including me) gets caught up in the "normal" way to do it. I've learned alot of things from guys on here and believe me the old saying, don't knock it til you try it is appropiate here. Try the shorter leader first. I've taken buddies that hardly ever fish and can't even throw a spinning reel and rig it on a Zebco 33 and they would catch 'em as well as me (Ask Gary on this one, he met and talked one of those guys, "Bill Dance") LOL Gary, you remember him and how he caught them numerous times with me!
Later,
Tim
Gary
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