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Topic: Good braided line?  (Read 4316 times)

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Gowen4bigfish

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well there you go hard to probable come up with more reliable info. than that thanks. this is the great thing about this forum you can get the dirt on things from people that know the products. with out putting in a lot of your own valuable time.

Goldenarrow what do you usually like to go fishing for, sounds like you like to fish if you take that much intrest in your products.
« Last Edit: January 10, 2006, 09:06:47 AM by Gowen4bigfish »


granitedive

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Being naive about most ways of fishing that don't involve sticking a pointed object throught the fish eye to eye, I'm wondering what size spectra I should use for my salmon trolling set-up. And is a leader necessary? I do love simplicity.
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  30 or even 20 lb seem ideal. They have 8lb mono and 6lb mono equivalent diameters.

  my guess is that mono or flouro between at least the bait and the
  planer/sinker is normal, and it sounds like Tom and Mooch use even
  more leader above the planer/sinker connection. Then again, mooch
  apparently paints his weights (what color?). can't argue with success...

  I just use 25lb mono between the sinker/planer and lure/bait.

  to make rigging a little simpler,

  I have been doubling the braid (like 6") with a surgeon's knot.

  then I take a sinker slider and a 60lb sampo ball bearing snap swivel
  (reduces tangles I think).

  put the doubled braid through the slido and tie to the ring on the snap
  swivel with a uni-knot.  the slido is for mooching. just take the weight
  off the snap and leave the slido there if trolling.

  Now at least you probably won't have to re-tie that part, just attach and
  detach mooching leaders, sinker releases, planers, etc.

  I guess eventually you get a snag, or tangle that requires re-rigging that
  part, but I have only had to do it once and that was due to me misthreading
  a line guide.

 
john m. airey


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30 is probably good; I was thinking bigger, but I am usually a one-rod man; though I bought a lighter tackle rod supposedly for mooching. I guess you can mooch just fine with the 30 lb. spectra, huh.
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that 30lb spectra seems to be pretty all-around.

I don't see the logic in a heavier line, unless it's ease of
handling, but then you might as well have mono.

If the reel is big you could put heavier spectra or equal mono
underneath so you don't end up with a shocker of a bill for
filling that thing with expensive spectra.

I think an Abu 5 series will hold 400 odd yards of 30lb spectra
(uncoated).

The 20 I have on my salmon reel cut a groove in my tip-top guide,
my external line counter line wheel and pretty much all of my fingertips.
The 30 is a lot more friendly I am finding.

maybe I'll have kzreelrods put on a special roller tip top on my custom rod.
or something.

john m. airey


Davey Jones

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I have liked 10lb power pro for quite awhile but it is the line that you match to the target fish. Since the fish here are less than 10lb that is what I use; although I did spool my catala 300 with 15lb and 30lb spiderwire it was rated for my rod/reel and then the fish, 15lb or less catfish. The think I like about the spectra is that it is not de-valued by exposure to the elements but there are times I take  2X my rod length off the reel to get to less abraided line, but that might be a season worth of fish here. Types I have used are Power Pro, Spiderline, Tuff-Line. If I had more money I would use them all.


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I bought 2 Penn wire line rods and  345GTI & Senator reels for that Kite fishing site. Talk about a tackle junky.