Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Foreword

1. Setting up your outfit
2. Attaching the leader
3. Picking the right leader
4. Leader and tippet materials
5. Matching tippet diameter to fly size
6. Why is tippet length important
7. Leader length
8. Leaders at streamside
9. Should the leader float or sink
10. Attaching a fly to the tippet
11. Tying leader material together
12. Tying loops in monofilament
13. Tips for tightening knots
14. Tips for care of leaders and tippets
15. leaders for Bass, Pike, Salmon and Steelhead fishing
16. Saltwater leaders
17. Saltwater knots

Glossary
The Orvis Knotted Leader Formulas
Index
About the Author

About the Author

Tom Rosenbauer has been a fly fisher for four decades, and was tying flies commercially at age fourteen. He is the author of numerous books, as well as countless articles for American Angler, Outdoor Life, Field & Stream, and other periodicals. He is a marketing manager with the Orvis Company in Manchester, Vermont, and lives in nearby Pawlet.