The Leland Rigging Standard  
         

FLY FISHING THE RIGHT WAY

At Leland, we take our fly fishing seriously, and we assume that you do too. That’s why, when you leave our shop, or receive your gear in a shipment, your Fly Reels and Fly Lines will be professionally rigged to go out and fish for world records, right out of the box.

In some fly shops, your reel, backing, fly line, and leader butt connections are assembled by different employees with varying degrees of experience and knowledge. Your reel and lines may all be rigged differently, depending on who did them that particular day. Unfortunately, the guy with the greater skill may not always be behind the counter putting your stuff together. A trout shop may not have a lot of familiarity with heavy-duty rigging for big saltwater fish. You don’t want to go half-way around the world and lose a fish of a lifetime due to an inappropriate or poorly constructed knot. That doesn’t happen at Leland.

THE LELAND RIGGING STANDARD

What’s special about the Leland Rigging Standard? Here are a few things that we do to keep our customers coming back for more. They even bring in their relatively new tackle to have it re-rigged by us.

• Every connection type is specifically selected for maximum strength and ease of use based on line weight, line type and density, and intended purpose of the outfit.
 
• All fly lines are clearly hand marked with a bar code at the backing connection indicating line weight, sink tip grain weight, and dual markings for sink rate, where appropriate. You’ll never have to guess again about which lines you have on your reels, particularly when a couple of years have gone by!

• All fly lines four weight and above are securely attached to the backing with our custom, hand-made braided loops and Bimini Twist connections that approach 100% of each line's unique breaking strength. This juncture also allows you to quickly and easily switch fly lines on a spool without having to retie knots.

• Monofilament butt sections attached to the front of your fly line are diameter specific to exactly match the relative stiffness of that particular line, so that you can enjoy the full advantage of your high performance fly line with the smoothest turnover of your casting loop. A perfection loop on the front of the butt section offers the option of looping different leaders on and off without tying knots.

• Only the highest quality Dacron backing is selected, based on fly line weight, reel spool capacity and intended purpose, to maximize breaking strength, versus a fish's room to run. Let us know if you want to substitute Gel-spun backing to increase the amount of backing that we can fit on your reel. As you might guess, we have a special way of rigging that, too.

Small Trout or Giant Tuna; trust Leland to rig your fly fishing gear the right way, every time.