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Airflo Salmon/Steelhead 8′ PolyLeader- Hover

Use anywhere 7-10 wt rods and heavy tippets are required- .5" sink rate

$13.99

These are floating “butt sections” to which you simply add tippet, or a transition piece and then tippet. They come in 5′ and 8′ versions and feature a welded loop on the butt end so that you can easily attach to your fly line via loop-to-loop connection. The Light Trout versions here feature a medium mono core and are best suited for line weights 4-7wt or where medium diameter tippets are needed.

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The Airflo Polyleader Salmon Steelhead Hover in the 8′ version featured here for line weights 7-10.

The Airflo 8′ Salmon/Steelhead Polyleaders may well be the best large leader butts made. These things are so easy, long lasting, and wildly effective. Available in floating and a variety of sink rates to cover most situations.

This is a floating “butt section” to which you simply add tippet, or a transition piece and then tippet. Sold here in the 8′ version and features a welded loop on the butt end so that you can easily attach to your fly line via loop-to-loop connection. The Salmon/Steelhead versions here features a heavy weight mono core and are best suited for line weights 6-9wt or where larger diameter tippets are needed.

******Please note that these things will work just fine for ANY fish or fly that requires .012″- .015″ (or larger) tippet or so. They are not “Just for Salmon or Steelhead”,  and work exceptionally well any larger gamefish Typical industry discrimination to call them “Salmon/Steelhead”.


* 8′ Polyurethane floating, tapered butt section. Just add tippet! (or transition and tippet)
* Superior turnover
* Long lasting
* Will turn over tippets from 4-12′ (mostly recommended is 4-6′)
* No water spray or retention
* Ready looped on the butt end for attaching to fly line
* Mono connector for attaching the tippet in a variety of ways
* Non-toxic- polyurethane
* Hover sinks at .5″ per second
* Color is Clear

The Salmon/Steelhead Polyleaders here have an exposed mono “connector” on the front end of .021″ (very important) You can either tie a perfection loop in the end of this and go straight to tippet, or blood knot or surgeons knot a transition piece and then loop the tippet.

For tippets of .017″- .021″ you should be able to go straight from connector to tippet. For thinner tippets, it is really best to tie a 1-2′ piece of “transition” and we usually go .019″ or .017″ and then loop-to-loop for the final, thinner diameter, say .015″- .012″ or so. 

***It is recommended that you don’t go any heavier than 24lb breaking strength on any connector or tippet piece to avoid potential breaking of the butt section itself.

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