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Location: Poynette WI. | I've been seeing more bucktails that have the hook attached by a clevis. I always use a split ring myself. I do not trust the strength of a clevis holding up with a big fish, but i've notice a lot of other bucktails being set up this way. I've even had some clevis wear out just from the blade spinning. I'm sure its a matter of preference but also think that some guys using this set up might not even think twice about it. Curious to hear what others think and have experienced with this set up. |
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| I've always thought the same thing and replaced them with split rings. I'd rather not lose a big fish because of it... |
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Location: Land of the Musky | I would tend to agree if its a standard clevis. A normal clevis (even high quality) is not meant to withstand 50lb+ of force. Most of the ones I have seen don't even have a stress rating on them vs split rings which are rated to a lb force to open them and most of those ratings are about 50%-70% of what the rings will actually hold. I took a 150lb ring and with a lb pulley it took 325lbs of force to open it up. Also put a pair of channel-lock pliers through a wall testing one ring  wife was not happy...oppps! JMO but go with split rings and choose bucktails that have at least 3 wraps of wire on the wire shaft at both loop ends.
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| Agree with above. I have had split rings pretzeled on 2 occasions by fish that I can recall. If they were clevises, they would have broken. |
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Location: Waconia,MN | Stay with split rings, they have weight ratings clevis's don't. They weren't ment to hold hooks and take tons of abuse. |
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Location: Twin Cities, MN | How about this clevis on an old buchertail ?
I believe it is the largest size in the stirrup version.
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