Quinte Fishing

I use an 8wt, for leaders I make my own, I use furled leaders, for tippet, I usually just use 8lbs test, haven't really had a problem with bite offs, flies I tie for gar are zonker rabbit strip flies with a stinger hook, gar tend to attack on and angle and just snap at a fly, so when they grab the zonker right in the middle, set the hook and the trailer hook will get them in the other side of the mouth, these flies have increased my landing of gar over 80% !!! using single hook flies my strikes were 100% and my landing was 10% if I was lucky, I sight fish for them in less than 1' of water.
for pike I use whitlock eelworm flies, and a wire leader attached to my tippet. as for carp, I don't fly fish for them, WAY too hard, if you can catch a carp with fly fishing gear, you are a fishing god!! I just stick to my hobby of making my own secret boilie recipes to catch carp.