Hey guys, I picked up a couple of hardy 9ft 5X leaders this weekend for fishing dries. The way I set it up is knail knot the leader to the fly line, cut off 1ft of the leader, tie a perfection loop and tie my tippet off of that. But anyway the leader is great! It casts very well, presents the flies delicatly, has low memory and after treating the leader with watershed it floats nicely. I've tried this with many tapered leaders and used to do it with Maxima chameleon tapered leaders but this one blows them all out of the water, if you fish dries regularly try this set up.