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Location: Kronenwetter, WI | I generally have been running my own floro leaders on all my baits and rods. I run multiple rods in the bow and am thinking of running my jerk set up with a solid-wire leader so I can throw mantas, etc, w/o fouling on the leader....
How many of you are doing this...running floro on your bucktail rod and solid wire on your jerk...
My jerk rod would be used to throw:
dawgs, gliders, burts, jakes, reefs, etc...
Thoughts? |
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Location: Toronto, ON | Do it. You will get more action and less fouling on your jerkbait rod using single strand (174# is good). I occasionally still use fluoro (150# Seaguar Premier) but I'm becoming more exclusive to single strand (lighter for bucks and cranks, 124#) due to bite-off's experienced by my friends. Muskies can't ever cut wire...EVER, and muskies do not care about the invisibility of a leader. I would also suggest that in most conditions, fluoro is as visible as a bronzed single-strand leader.
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Location: Kronenwetter, WI | Do you make your own or what brand? |
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Location: Toronto, ON | I make my own......it's REALLY cheap and really, really easy and once you get the haywire twist down--it's easy--you're all set. I use American Fishing Wire 124# and 174# single strand "camo brown". I'll post a simple "how to" in the next week as to how I do it. |
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Location: Kronenwetter, WI | Greatly 'preciated.
Looking forward to seeing it. |
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Location: Toronto, ON | BTW, I also use shrinkwrap to reduce the collection of weeks, specifically, the slimy crap that you have to painstakingly pick off.....it makes a difference. |
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Location: Kronenwetter, WI | Tan--
What is the Haywire twist...I have a boggs tackle maker...will that work?
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| Cowboyhannah - 1/13/2008 2:01 PM
How many of you are doing this...running floro on your bucktail rod and solid wire on your jerk...
I do this on my home waters in IL, not in Canada (strictly single-strand). I run 130 pound Stealth on my crankbait and bucktail/spinnerbait rods and 174 pound single-strand on my dawg/Sue/glider/Suick rods. |
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | http://muskie.outdoorsfirst.com/board/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=31...
There is a link to how I build my glider leaders. PM me if you have any questions. |
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Location: Kronenwetter, WI | Nightmare,
Thanks, pal. That was perfect.
Man, I love this site. |
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | Your welcome, brother! |
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Do you run mult. rods w/different leaders?