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Location: On my favorite lake! | I was wondering which snaps and swivels everone uses for their leaders. |
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Location: Ft. Wayne Indiana | #5 String Ease Stay-Lok snaps and a good quality ball bearing swivel. Don't use a barrel swivel. |
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Location: Musky Tackle Online, MN | I'm in complete areement with Mike on this one. I won't use anything but Stay-Loks. By far the best snap out there.
Aaron
Edited by AWH 3/6/2007 6:44 AM
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| I use the best quality solid ring ball bearing swivels for bucktail swivels.
For everything else, I have a solid ring on the line tie end, or a barrel swivel,( I'm using those up and phasing them out) and on all of my lures or leaders I use what used to be called Bucher split rings, but now they are just plain silver, not olive colored.
I have had every kind of snap swivel on the market open up all the way or half way. I've lost about 10 gliders because of snaps that opened during the cast, and lost fish with lures in them when other snaps opened or in one case I had one of the super snaps crack.
Too much to worry about. A good split ring, a cheap pair of split ring pliers and that is all that you need.
I don't care who makes them, IT IS MY OPINION that any thing that is opened and closed will eventually weaken and either open or fail in another way.
I have personally never had a good split ring open up, either during the cast or the fight.
When I make leaders, I put a loop on the business end, and I put a splitring on every one of my lures and attach it with a split ring instead of a snap. Last year I started carrying a box with a coil of wire and a bag full of solid rings and a bag with split rings and make them as I need them. It takes about 2 minutes. I have my bucktail leaders with ball bearing swivels in a Plano box, and use them for spinnerbaits too, but that is just because I use the same rod.
All it took was losing a couple of lures to open my eyes, but I lost lures that got hung up trolling and a LE HR that was a gift from my daughter. That was the last snap that I will ever use.
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Location: Ft. Wayne Indiana | You might also want to check these bad boys out....
I had a few this fall that I put on my Fuzzy Duzzit's... You can barely open them...
These things WILL NOT open up on you. Crazy strong...5 times stronger than anything I have ever felt or used.
http://www.musky-lures.com/!!!super_snaps.htm |
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| I like split rings (watch them so they don't open up; they'll last longer if you keep a ring on every lure and remove them from your leader to change baits) but have lost baits with them, too. Nothing is perfect. You need pay attention to your split rings or snaps to make sure you don't lose baits/fish, either way. I like the stay-locks just fine. I tend to use split rings for trolling over rocks because I think they handle that kind of abuse better. |
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| guys can dispute but im a fan of duo=loks. never had one fail yet. plus there nicely rounded to let baits do their magic swing |
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| i use wolverine split rings- but i make my leaders with a solid ring tied on each end; this eliminates ever having to worry about the wire sneeking into the wraps of the split ring and working off. |
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | I like the String Ease Stay-Lok snaps on all my custom leaders I make. Flourocarbon or wire they are the only snaps I use. I also run the Spro swivels to complete the other end.
As for failure on snaps. Once they get used for a while I just cut them off and put new ones on my leaders. I don't let them get to the point where failure is an issue. If you think it's getting bad, take it off and put that leader in the repair bag. I always have plenty of leaders handy so changing a leader out is easy. |
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Location: Davenport, IA | I like cross-loc snaps, #225 lb if I remember is what I use. I've used the string-ease stay locs and never lost a fish to them...but i've had them twisted up really bad a couple times. I also use barrel swivels...never had one break. |
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