Outside Online, Use a 7- or 8-weight rod, matching floating line with an 8-foot leader including a 2-foot bite tippet of 20-pound fluorocarbon or monofilament.
2023 Basic gear like nippers, forceps to pinch barbs or remove hooks, tippet to attach new flies to the leader, and some good wading or water shoes are good to have. Greg Thomas, Outside Online, The Beartooth Package includes the rod, rod tube, rod sock, line, line holder, flies, and tippet. 2021 Simply slide the notched cylinder down the tippet to the fly and twist your wrist, freeing the hook. Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 13 July 2023 Ben Christensen hooked the 31.55-pound catfish while casting an olive-colored creek damsel fly on 12-pound tippet with a 4-weight rod in the Pedernales River. Recent Examples on the Web However, a short section of fluorocarbon tippet at the end of the leader can help sink a fly just below the surface when fishing emerger or cripple patterns.
