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Location: Northern Illinois | Do you use coated (AFW Surflon) or non-coated(AFW Surfstrand) when making your leaders. What are the advantages and disadvantages? I crimp when I make my own leaders. I'm thinking non-coated might be better for that. |
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Location: US | Ive used coated wire briefly. The coated wire will fatigue and break any time the plastic coating cracks so you have to change it out any time it gets bent, just like a solid wire, so i just use solid wire. |
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Location: PA Angler | I’ve used the coated tie your own knots and crimps and really like that. I’ve also used just the plain wire and didn’t care as it’s a single strand wire and if you keep bending it, it will become weak and break. |
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Location: Mt. Zion, IL | I use 90 and 175 49 strand. I crimp them exclusively, but check the first few you make as one set of my crimpers doesn’t lock in the wire. I had to buy a different set to make sure I didn’t have any failures. I use them for rubber since a lot of fish head shot the big rubber baits. 49 strand kinks very little compared to solid wire/single strand. |
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Posts: 372
Location: On the River | I use coated leader material for my quick strike rigs also for leaders on my sucker rigs.
The brand I use is Cortland tiger braid it’s tie able so no need to crimp.
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Location: Brighton CO. | For my regular solid wire I use uncoated, if I was going to make a long trolling leader with say 49 strand cable then I would use coated. (It helps show ware and is easier on the fish if they roll) Like they do in the fall. |
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| I use coated wire now for a couple years, had a couple fluorocabon leaders break at the crimp and had a leader and quickstrike rig slip on me with the crimp with the uncoated. The fluoro was the Seaguar Abrazx 130LB, and the wire was 135LB AFW surfstrand. Ive been using AFW straight/piano wire for most applications other than my twitchbait rod, rubber, and trolling/sucker rods and sucker rigs. Cold water gator roll, i like to have coated like the fluoro if i can help it. I started using the coated AFW Surflon 90LB, and it seems to hold the crimps better. Theres two kinds, the Micro and regular, i used the micro but accidently bought the regular which i found is much larger in diameter, thought my eyes were playing tricks on me when i was at the store looking at it :). So im going to give that a shot, but dont think itll be an issue. |
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Location: Walker, MN | Non-coated only for me. 7 strand, 49 strand and solid wire all work very well. I have the most confidence in solid wire formed with a round-nosed plyers. |
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Posts: 221
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota | I have gotten frustrated lately with the coated 49 strand leaders I have bought from leaders and lures. They are great out of the pack but once you get a dawg ball or a fish that gets the leader in its teeth, the leader starts to coil up on itself like a spring. Once this starts I haven’t found a way to get it back straight. It’s a huge pain when fishing rubber since it greatly increases your likelihood of hook fowling. I’m going to try making my own this winter since I already make my single strand leaders. I will say in the last two months of using them I have fallen in love with the pandemonium single strand titanium leaders that they call Roswell leaders. It’s halfway between the flexibility of single strand and multi strand, but it’s almost impossible to kink.
With that said though if you don’t want to worry about your leader than learn how to make single strand leaders with round nose pliers. I have used maybe 1 30ft roll of 174lbs afw this year which cost me maybe $5, and that’s with me changing my leaders after every bad kink I get. Get some swivels and solid rings or snaps, a roll of afw, and your set for a long time |
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