02-22-2019, 06:28 PM
Rocky you've got a lot going on in that post that is very interesting to me... I used to use the mono or fluorocarbon leader, but I've had a couple issues, one is my uni-uni knot at the splice sometimes likes to catch on the end eye when I'm fighting a good fish in the critical end of the fights and that could cause an issue so I'm a little afraid of that happening, and everyone has been telling me that they are going away from the leaders because they aren't necessary with most fish... I really haven't seen a difference myself with fish shying away from just braid, so I'm moving towards less leader use these days, but I still really like the idea of the leaders so I have a natural tendency to want to use them, I will likely keep doing some of both methods...
Nano-fil my love/hate relationship... I love the way Nano-fil casts, I can get so much more distance out of it and the accuracy is wonderful, but once it starts fraying it's worthless... It gets so weak so fast... I lost several big cats last year because of it... and some of my rods were fairly new that I was using it on, so I don't think the eyes should be bad that soon... Seems like it only lasts as long as mono for me, so if the price was more in line with mono instead of braid I'd probably use it on everything... but since it costs so much, I'm moving away from it, except in special cases... (I have it on a lot of my ice rods because it doesn't have the memory that makes the line kinky, plus it doesn't retain the water as bad as braid does.)
I haven't even heard of the carrier lines you mention, so I'm going to have to look into them, they sound interesting.. Thanks for some great info and conversation. I love to learn about new ways of doing things that might help me fix problems... Thanks again Rocky... Later Jeff
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Nano-fil my love/hate relationship... I love the way Nano-fil casts, I can get so much more distance out of it and the accuracy is wonderful, but once it starts fraying it's worthless... It gets so weak so fast... I lost several big cats last year because of it... and some of my rods were fairly new that I was using it on, so I don't think the eyes should be bad that soon... Seems like it only lasts as long as mono for me, so if the price was more in line with mono instead of braid I'd probably use it on everything... but since it costs so much, I'm moving away from it, except in special cases... (I have it on a lot of my ice rods because it doesn't have the memory that makes the line kinky, plus it doesn't retain the water as bad as braid does.)
I haven't even heard of the carrier lines you mention, so I'm going to have to look into them, they sound interesting.. Thanks for some great info and conversation. I love to learn about new ways of doing things that might help me fix problems... Thanks again Rocky... Later Jeff
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