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Posts: 371
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: 368
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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| 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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