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| If the weakest point is the knot in your line then, how much higher in strength does your leader have to be compared to the line? |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | If the weak spot is the knot to the leader, shouldn't you need to use heavier line?????
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| If you use 80-100 lb super braid is there a need to exceed the line strength by more than let's say 10% in a leader? |
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Location: Hayward, WI | I don't think you really need to worry about breaking 80 or higher pound superline, and the strength of the leader shouldn't matter either as far as just plain breaking. Snaps and connections are more likely to fail than the actual wire leader.
Most guys use 60-90 # multi strand and 120-174 for wire, with 174 probably being pretty common. The 174 pound wire is more for durability - resisting kinks and bends, more so than it is the tensile strength.
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Location: Davenport, IA | I've never broken a 90# nylon coated sevenstrand leader. Straight wire, I had some 80#ers that broke on the cast...I use .051 bucktail wire now though...not for strength, just because I don't want it to bend. |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | Schuler, .051 wire???? That's awful heavy. Most of us use only .029 or 174# test. What are you doing to bend .029 wire? I would think that kind of wire would kill a lot of action a most baits. |
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Location: Davenport, IA | I only use it for jerkbaits, doesn't seem to hurt the action at all. If I use smaller wire it can bend from snags or hitting rocks, catching fish, ect. Also, the bucktail wire I buy is precut and straight. I have some 208# (I believe) wire and its in a coil.
Edited by Schuler 4/15/2007 11:41 PM
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