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| What are the pros/cons to using a single wire leader vs a fluoro leader when trolling? |
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| Single , solid wire leaders are not really designed for trolling. They are more for jerk, glide baits, though I will use them with cranks and bucktails sometimes.
The stranded plastic coated wire leader materiel is what I use trolling.
I personally dont think there is any advantage to using fluoro for trolling in 99% of cases. |
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| Some fish tend to roll after being hooked, wrapping the line or leader around them. If have just a short leader, you risk having your line get nicked by a gill-raker or sharp teeth and then losing the fish. This is why most people use 3 to 4 foot leaders when trolling. If you use a long wire leader, you risk harming the fish by having the sharp-ish wire dig into the fish and cutting into it. Plus, long wire leaders are hard to manage, and easily get kinked. For these reasons, many people use long fluoro leaders when trolling for muskie. |
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Location: Detroit River | On LSC most trolling guys that I know use a 6 foot fluoro leader. The attach a weight (2 oz to 4 oz) where the main line attaches to the leader. The weight helps keep the bait down & also helps prevent weeds from catching on the lure. |
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| To prevent damage to the fish when one roll's up in the leader, is why I use plastic/nylon coated multi- strand.
Agreed, the larger diameter of higher test fluoro compared to plastic/nylon coated multi strand should do even more to prevent damage, I have not experienced plastic/nylon coated leaders cutting into fish when they roll.
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| tndoug - 6/5/2015 5:27 PM I have not experienced plastic/nylon coated leaders cutting into fish when they roll. I agree, coated multi-strand wire is a different thing. I was speaking to the OPs question about single-strand vs. fluoro. |
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