Four pound tippet or fluorocarbon

[BrownBear]

Never seen that. Is there a chance the elastic band is on backward? Wild guess....

[Devinpreston]

I use 4lb and 6lb Berkely vanish for all nymphing and mono for dries.

[acorad]

BB, the curlyQ tippet on the left was pulled out through the grommet in the elastic, the straight tippet on the right is what I get when I remove the elastic and just take the line off the spool.

I must be doing something wrong!



Andy

[fly addict]

Andy,
That is strange, it is why the grommet is there to begin with...

[BrownBear]

I'd try spinning that elastic around the other way when you put it back on the spool. I've had that happen on 7x Rio, and reversing the elastic helped for some reason.

Also, I wouldn't be caught on the water without one of these. Priceless for leader control.

[acorad]

Thanks guys, I'll try reversing the elastic.

BB, I'm old school, I have a square of bicycle inner-tube hanging from my vest!

Andy

[BrownBear]

BB, I'm old school, I have a square of bicycle inner-tube hanging from my vest!

I was too, but lost out to the Fashion Police. Our daughter has a high regard for her own opinions about fashion, and periodically makes me a special project. In a move to clean up my act, she went through my fly fishing wardrobe and confiscated everything that embarrassed her to admit our genetic ties.

Where, or where, did my favorite fishing hat go, the one with enough holes to qualify it as a visor?

[NorcalBob]

You're not doing any thing wrong, it's the grommets fault. What is happening is that you are applying pressure/friction on the tippet while it is rubbing against/through the grommet and this is causing a stress point to be applied to the tippet resulting in curling. Forget the grommet, just run your tippet from underneath the elastic band and that will solve your woes.

BB, the curlyQ tippet on the left was pulled out through the grommet in the elastic, the straight tippet on the right is what I get when I remove the elastic and just take the line off the spool.

I must be doing something wrong!



Andy

[acorad]

Thanks Bob, that's what I will do!

Andy