RIO Powerflex Trout Leaders

$4.99

RIO’s Powerflex Trout leaders feature a powerful butt section that provides unsurpassed turn over for effective wind penetration and to easily cast streamers and indicator rigs. Each leader is made with an advanced copolymer material that ensures the highest knot and tensile strength to allow confident hook sets and greater landing percentages. Each Powerflex Trout leader is designed to help you cast better and fish more effectively.

Aggressive high-performance taper
Long, powerful butt section with soft, flexible tippet
Perfection loop in the butt for easy rigging

RIO Powerflex Trout Leaders 3-Pack

$12.99

RIO’s Powerflex Trout leaders feature a powerful butt section that provides unsurpassed turn over for effective wind penetration and to easily cast streamers and indicator rigs. Each leader is made with an advanced copolymer material that ensures the highest knot and tensile strength to allow confident hook sets and greater landing percentages. Each Powerflex Trout leader is designed to help you cast better and fish more effectively.

Aggressive high-performance taper
Long, powerful butt section with soft, flexible tippet
Perfection loop in the butt for easy rigging

RIO Euro Nymph Leaders

$9.99

Designed with a unique taper to meet the needs of the European nymphing methods

RIO’S Euro Nymph Leaders are designed with a unique taper to meet the needs of the European nymphing methods for competitors and first timers. These 9’ leaders are built out of a high-vis milky white tapered leader which is hand tied to 22” of our Indicator Tippet material. This gives maximum visibility in all lighting conditions to make subtle strike detection easier. The leader ends with a tippet ring and requires you to attach you own tippet to properly match the water type.

Opaque white leader for visibility
High-viz two-tone indicator tippet for maximum strike detection
Trout sized tippet ring for fast rigging

RIO Pike/Musky Leaders

$9.99

A STIFF NYLON, TAPERED LEADER attached to a tough, bite resistant wire shock tippet that is ideal for Pike, Musky, and similar toothy species.

There are two wire choices: 1) A supple nylon coated braided wire (Bronze) that you can knot and 2) A nylon coated single strand steel wire (Silver) with snap link.

Ultra tough nylon with wire shock tippet
Choice of steel or braided wire
Hand tied perfection loop in the butt for fast rigging

Headgate Tippet Holder (Loaded)

$39.95

RIO has teamed up with Fishpond to offer the perfect bundle to attach to your vest or bag. 5, 30-yard spools of RIO’s Powerflex tippet material (2X to 6X) are included with Fishpond’s Headgate tippet dispenser in a ready-to-hit-the-water configuration. The headgate has a spring loaded hinge design that allows anglers to easily add or change tippet spools, and features a built in cutting blade for ultimate convenience. Powerflex tippet has a high knot and tensile strength, and is made of a clear, nylon copolymer. It is ideal for dry flies, soft hackles and nymphs

RIO Powerflex Tippet

$4.99

The RIO Powerflex Tippet features superb knot strength, stretch and suppleness to make this the finest nylon tippet for any fly fishing setup. Made from co-polymer PTFE coating, this tippet's light grey color enhances its camouflage ability on the water. Available from 8X to 60lb, the Powerflex is ideal for all species.

RIO Powerflex Plus Tippet

$9.99

RIO’S Powerflex Plus Tippet. RIO’s newest tippet is the strongest nylon tippet material ever made, with tensile strengths up to 20% more than regular tippet. A highly technical formulation of the nylon copolymer manufacturing process has resulted in this prodigious strength increase, without compromising knot strength or suppleness. Simply put, this is the strongest, most reliable tippet ever made. Each spool has the added bonus of 50 yards of tippet.

RIO Bass Tippet

$5.99

A medium stiff tippet material with great abrasion resistance

RIO’s Bass Tippet is a medium stiff tippet material with great abrasion resistance. It is ideal for casting bigger flies like Clouser minnows and poppers, and tough enough to withstand being scraped over rocks and submerged trees.

RIO Fluoroflex Tippet

$12.99

Medium stiff, 100% fluorocarbon. Ideal for Steelhead, Salmon, Trout and Bass.

The Fluoroflex Freshwater Tippet is medium stiff, 100% fluorocarbon and is ideal for Steelhead, Salmon, Trout and Bass. Clear in color, this freshwater tippet is nearly invisible to fish. The flex of the material is best for larger flies. Sizes range from 2lbs to 20lbs.

RIO Saltwater Mono

$9.99

RIO’S NEW SALTWATER MONO is the go-to choice for anglers looking to tie their own leaders for tarpon, bonefish, permit, and other saltwater species.

The material has a great strength-to-diameter ratio, ample abrasionresistance, lacks memory and provides incredible knot-ability. Available in size 8lb to 60lb, there is an appropriate diameter for any leader’s butt section, plus a great range of sizes to taper down with.

Medium stiff nylon
Great knot strength

RIO Braided Loops

$5.99

A quick and easy way to attach leader to fly line or the backing to the line.

RIO's Braided Loops feature an end-loop that allows you to change the leader quickly and easily. Each package comes with 4 braided loops with tubing, in white. Sizing: Regular - Lines 3 - 6; Large - Lines 7 - 12; Extra Large - Spey Lines.

RIO Indicator Tippet

$14.99

Opaque two tone 8” sections of fluorescent pink and fluorescent chartreuse color changing tippet with highly defined hard color changes. These color breaks create maximum contrast to allow anglers to get visual cues when tight line nymphing. The best indicator material for building sighters for European Style Nymphing.

RIO Technical Euro Nymph Leaders

$12.99

RIO’S TECHNICAL EURO NYMPH LEADER has been designed for the ultimate in performance when fishing any of the European nymphing techniques. The extra-long, ultra-thin leader is incredibly sensitive to the subtlest of grabs, and the two-tone indicator tippet tied to the front end has high contrast and is very easy to see. The leader finishes with a RIO tippet ring so anglers can quickly and easily attach the tippet of their choice.

Ultra-thin leader for maximum sensitivity and quick depth

Two-tone indicator tippet section for contrast and detecting the subtlest of takes

Hand tied perfection loop in the butt for quick rigging

RIO Tippet Rings

$9.99

Tippet Rings are small, very strong and lightweight, and make rigging and tippet replacement fast and easy

A leader with a tippet ring turns over perfectly, and they are light enough to use when fishing dry flies. Just tie the tippet ring to a leader with a clinch knot, and then add the required tippet in the same way. Tapered leaders last longer with a tippet ring as the leader will not be shortened every time the angler replaces the tippet. Tippet rings also make it extremely easy to add droppers, and are an excellent choice for European Style Nymphing and for Indicator nymph fishing.

2 sizes - Trout, 25lb/2mm diameter and Steelhead, 45lb/3mm diameter
10 per pack

RIO Twist Clips

$5.99

RIO’S FLY CLIPS are ultra-fast, easy connection clips that allow anglers to change flies with extreme ease and speed, and prevents leaders and tippet sections getting too short. Simply tie the appropriate sized clip on to the end of your leader and either twist or clip on your fly. Multiple sizes of clip ensure that there is a clip size suitable for the majority of fly sizes. RIO recommends the Twist clips for larger streamers and Salmon/steelhead patterns, and the RIO Clip for smaller dries, nymphs and soft hackles. This chart gives a guideline of approximate fly size for each clip size

RIO Trout Versileaders

$12.99

Trout VersiLeaders are an instantaneous addition that converts floating lines to sink tips.

RIO's Trout VersiLeaders are designed for the fly fisher who needs a quick-change option for converting a floating line to a sink tip. Each Versileader is tapered for the best in performance and has a 12lb nylon core coated in PVC. A neat, bullet-proof welded loop at the butt end allows for fast rigging.

Color-coded loops for easy identification
A complete range of sink rates
Slim, neat welded loop in the butt for quick rigging