attaching flys to dodgers?

[bmsstp4u]

Do most of you use a swivel on the fly leader, so you can change dodger colors, or do you tie direct to the attractors swivel?

[Nailer]

I tie a loop on the end of my flies. Then push the loop through the swivel and around it.

[killerbe20]

loop at the end of the fly leader. makes for quick changing, especially on attractors with cork screws or snaps on them.

[bmsstp4u]

I tie a loop on the end of my flies. Then push the loop through the swivel and around it.

any certain knot for the loop

[killerbe20]

i just make a loop, and a single "regular" over hand knot with the loop

[1mainiac]

Once I have a combo I like I tie them together in the past I have also put bead swivels on a lot of my flies and added a snap to the flasher. But for the most part I go with less connections to break is better so I direct tie a lot of my setups. When you start thinking about it a lot of our setups have way to many connections that could fail a typ diver with a flasher fly has 7 or more connections that could fail. If you reduce that to 5 you have increased the chances of catching more fish by reduceing the number of failures you could deal with. There are times my wallet cringes when I think about how much money I hang on a peice of string with a dozen knots in it LOL.

[Tad Pole]

I tie a loop in the end of my fly leader and use these,i'm not sure if these are the same brand we baught them years ago and we have never had one fail but it makes changing flys easy

http://www.corefishingtackle.com/OffshorePigtail_swivel.htm

[bmsstp4u]

I tie a loop in the end of my fly leader and use these,i'm not sure if these are the same brand we baught them years ago and we have never had one fail but it makes changing flys easy

http://www.corefishingtackle.com/OffshorePigtail_swivel.htm

do you still get the same lure action with back to back swivels, the dodgers have a barrel swivel on the end of them too

[Nailer]

i just make a loop, and a single "regular" over hand knot with the loop

^^ Yea That ^^

[Tad Pole]

The ones i have have clips on them and i remove the original clip off the spin doctor or fish catcher or protroll or paddle(you get the idea) and attach these, i rackin my brain trying to remeber where we got them but you might try gander mountain, they are a little pricey but i really like them, ill take a pic of them when im next in the boat

[bmsstp4u]

The ones i have have clips on them and i remove the original clip off the spin doctor or fish catcher or protroll or paddle(you get the idea) and attach these, i rackin my brain trying to remeber where we got them but you might try gander mountain, they are a little pricey but i really like them, ill take a pic of them when im next in the boat

sounds good yea I just bought a ton of snap swivels $5 for 10 of them, I was tyin one on each fly but I started thinkin I didnt see them on the other boats ive been on!

Im goin through a trial and error period fishin!

[1mainiac]

I have a whole bag of them in front of me on my desk they work pretty good they are from Opti Tackle and have a duo lock on one end of the swivel and the cork screw on the other I like them but stopped using them. Mostly because of the swivel I try to stick to all ball bearing swivels with welded rings and these are just standard swivels.

[Tad Pole]

Ah Jim your right here they are.It looks like if your willing to spend the money you could upgrade with the hardware they have on this site.

http://www.optitackle.com/terminaltackle.shtml

[Tad Pole]

Ok I said that I would post a pic of the pigtailed swivel when I got one so I was going threw some suff and I found one so here it is.

[Tad Pole]

Oppps not sure why the pic didnt work ive always been able to post pics before?