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| Anyone have first hand experience with the Tyger leader material? Thanks. |
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Location: milwaukee | I use the 50-lb stuff when I want to tie on jigheads without using a snap. Cuts the weeds nicely. Some guys are using it with circle-hooks when fishing suckers. I'm going to try it on my quick-strike rigging.
It's nice 'cause you can tie it - no crimps needed. It'll coil up some if you don't tie carefully, though.
No bad experiences here, but only hooked a few fish using the stuff. |
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Location: Iowa City, Iowa | I have used the 50# & higher strengths for 3 seasons. The limitation to the use (in my hands) is related to the flexibility, especially with jerkbaits. I prefer solid wire for jerkbaits. For other baits, stopping the cast by thumbing the spool, minimizes the tangling of the leader & hooks. When I have a tangle, I know that my concentration on my musky fishing is not optimal. An advantage to Tyger leader material is the ability to fabricate a new leader in the boat.
For technology junkies, Tyger leader material is different from coated flexible leader material. The polymeric material & the wires have an intimate connection which I believe contributes to the strength & the resistance to failure. |
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Location: Illinois | I tie my own quick strikes and use tyger leader. One perceived problem with Tyger leader is it coils so an unrigged quick strike looks like a slinky. However, once the sucker starts swimming, the rig lets the fish swim a little more freely because of the flexibility. I have been using the rig for a number of years with no bite-offs so no worries there. I can not say that it has increased my action over any other quick strike material I have used. |
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Location: Wishin I Was Fishin' | don't use the knot they show on the package |
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Location: searchin for 50 | What knot should we use then? I have used a uni,and a palomar and still get it kinked up even going slow and lots of lube.  |
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Location: Wishin I Was Fishin' | You tie an overhand knot in the leader first, snug it down leaving an opening that will be just large enough to fit the tag end back through (don't run it through yet). Then run the tag end through the snap, swivel or hook and back through the hole in the overhand. Tie another overhand in the tag end, this time the overhand goes around the standing end. Carefully tighten up the knots so no loops are loose, holding the hook in a vise and using a good pliers on the wire helps. Then trim the tag end but not so close that the knot could come undone.
This works great for sevenstrand too.
I perfer sevenstrand over tygerwire....way less money too.
Edited by Jomusky 11/16/2005 7:51 PM
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