Best Tippet for tarpon?

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I am new guy on fly fishing.

Sometimes I going fly fishing for Tarpon at my village, there are no problem to land tiny tarpon, but the problem start occur if a kilo size tarpon take the flies. Tippet will broken “kaput” and spoiled the “feel” of running Tarpon even there I used tippet 10lb floro line.

I read in some article in R&L and Pancing, some fly expert used as low as 4lb for tippet… how they do it?

ANZ

2

20 lb tippet also can break when hook up big tarpon so i use steel wire or 25 lb tippets.cheers.

subang

3

Fuh! I thought bigger #lb or steel wire will make the flies become bad presentation and reduce chances of strikes? But I should now there are no matter about #lb for tarpon tippet.

Thanks bro. hfyong.

ANZ

4

I am pretty new with Tarpon fishing but I used a special knotless braided leader (the same as I designed 25 years ago after lost a huge salmon) and it got the final test in Cuba. I had no breaks in this leader system in 25 years and no break with tarpon either… as tippet it all depends on the size of the tarpon I guess. The biggest Tarpon I caught was only 128cm, still a baby tarpon (I think hihi) but for me it was already a very big fish. I have a special connection between tippet and leader but most of the experienced guides use a loop to loop connection started from 60LBS fluorcarbon tipped directly at leader and 80-100lbs shock tippet in front. I was afraid this thick tipped would scare the fish away but it didn’t… I will publish the story on how to make this leader next year!

HvK

5

Can’t wait to see the secret of your tippet…

6

There are another 3 months to waiting, I still will lost the good tarpon. What the secret???

ANZ

7

No knots in backing-flyline-leader

8

what do you mean?

ANZ

9

That there are not knots in it any of the connections!

10

That there are not knots in it any of the connections!

11

Thanks bro HvK,

but i am new guy on this field, i am not really understand what do you mean “there are not knots in it any of the connections” so how you connet it?

or somebody could be help me?

ANZ

12

wel that’s the secret… but… i will lift a little from the top by tell you that I just splice them together.

HvK

13

the story publised soon, when that happen i send a digital copy

HvK

14

Story has been published, so Mr Anz if you contact me I will send you the text of the story.