Late season leader lengths

[Yak]

Hey guys, im just curious what others fish with in terms of leader length around this time of year. Ive been experimenting a bit with it and it seems my last few springs have been on shorter leaders than i normally use.

I regularly fish just over 6 foot leaders on my teaser heads and have found the past 2 weekends that a 4 and a half footer has outperformed. Is this normal for this time of year?

Thanks!
Yak

 

[spring fever]

Depends where you are fishing-I think you can get away with shorter leaders (anchovy-I assume)off-shore but as I get closer to the salmons home river I believe they get flasher shy and I lengthen my leaders to as much as 8-9ft- I first noticed this in Nootka what worked off-shore did not work inside-so if I'm not having much luck on a 51/2 6 footer I start lenthening till I do.

 

[tyeeking]

Ditto Spring Fever's comments. I think inside fish get flasher shy. I have run leaders as long as 10 feet with anchovies inside and found that it really makes a difference. It also gets pretty challenging landing them!

 

[tyeeking]

Ditto Spring Fever's comments. I think inside fish get flasher shy. I have run leaders as long as 10 feet with anchovies inside and found that it really makes a difference. It also gets pretty challenging landing them!

 

[oguard]

This year in Nootka, we used no flasher with an anchovie. It worked quite well and what a fight with no resistence from the flasher.

Mike

Catch it,Kill it,Smoke it.

 

[oguard]

This year in Nootka, we used no flasher with an anchovie. It worked quite well and what a fight with no resistence from the flasher.

Mike

Catch it,Kill it,Smoke it.