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Hear me out: Half-size tippet matters

Summary by hatchmag.com
If you grew up reading Patrick F. McManus in Field & Stream and Outdoor Life, you probably learned to fly fish with spools of 3X, 4X, 5X, and maybe 6X in your vest pockets. Then, one day, you went to the fly shop to replace a spool or two, and what on earth did you see? Half-sizes. If you were like me, you viewed this as the third sign of the Fly-Fishing Apocalypse. The first being nippers that cost more than a brake job. The second being Euro-n…
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hatchmag.com broke the news in on Friday, August 8, 2025.
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