Leader Line Vs Top Shot Line

Leader Line Vs Top Shot Line

One question we often get all the time is when we've got leader line and we've got Top Shot line and we've got the main line and they're all fluorocarbon,  if you've got the main line why do you need the rest of them well it's pretty simple to answer those are pretty much the primary ways you're going to use fluorocarbon line is either as a leader a top shot or mainline.

 A leader quite simply does not go through the tip most of the time it's typically shorter a top shot could be anywhere from five feet six feet it could be twenty feet it could be fifteen yards depending on what you're fishing for, but the main question is they've got mainline you start from the end of the spool you spool 200-600 yards yards however many yards you want why would you ever need the leader material when it's all fluorocarbon, if you'll stop and think it's almost like a sliding scale when you're using the main line with fluorocarbon you want something that's easily manageable you want to be able to cast it you want to be able to work with it those are things that you need to do to fish from day to day no matter what you're fishing.

A Top Shot you still need some management but we're typically talking about a top shot of what you're either tying to a monofilament of your time or oftentimes to a braided line, that's when the fluorocarbon the knots get important as we go to a leader you're not really wanting to work with it at all and in fact you're wanting to stay pretty much rigid and pretty much straight you want nice abrasion resistance you want really good solid quality line that you don't have to worry about getting torn off on rocks you don't have to worry about it being seen it's still fluorocarbon but you're not going work with it at all once you go from being easy-to-use on a real and manageable on a real you have issues with tying those connections so if you take the say the end visits which is an awesome mainline fluorocarbon and you try to tie that to a braided line it works but it's not ideal you can get the knots to cinch down but it's not what it was designed to do it's not nearly as easy to tie when you get into the true leader material.

A top shot, if I'm going with a leader I'm going with the blue label if I'm going with a top shot I'm going go with a premier which is a little bit easier to work with but it's not quite as mainline supple as what lichen and physics would be.

However, you can use in visits as a leader you can use any of the Seaguar mainline fluorocarbon as a leader but it's designed  to be mainline to be worked with and if you lose some of the qualities of what a true leader or a true top shot is when you get into that so as long as you think about it as it being either a mainline a top shot or a leader and what you want to do with it it's pretty easy to make the choice and you can see the reason for all three.

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