Trace or mono leader
Submitted by fab on Mon, 2011-01-17 20:00
Any advice would be greatley appreciated. A mate and myself are going fishing up north soon, and will be baitcasting mullies around bombies. My question is what is the better way to go, wire trace or mono leader?
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big john
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80-100lb Mono
Go the mono fab, you may get bitten off by the odd mack/shark but you'll get a much better presentation and hook a lot more desirable fish.
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fab
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Thanks big john, was thinking
Thanks big john, was thinking that way myself, but just needed a bit of reassurance. Cheers!!
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depends
.......on what your chasing, macs then single strand wire but for spango/trout/chinaman/rankins etc then as BJ said go mono. Look at using flurocarbon so you can go lighter in trace line ie 60lb for spooky fish and better abbrasion resistence when they try to bury you.
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oceanside got any 60lb fluro
oceanside got any 60lb fluro in store atm?
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yeh
.....we have in stock Marco.
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big john
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Macks
Even for macks i fish mono, plenty more hits and whats a bunch of ganged hooks worth. At least with mono on floaters you'll also hook dollies, sails and be in with a good chance of boating them, sailfish destroy SS traces pretty easy.
Never bothered with fluorocarbon for northern fishing myself.
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sweet well whenever the spool
sweet well whenever the spool is ready lemmi know and will buy some of that too. got the 40 80 and 100 just need 60 :0
fab
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Mostly after spanglies or
Mostly after spanglies or c\trout. Reason i ask is because last time we were up we lost a couple of good fish when on leader, chewed us straight through. Decided to change to wire, but the action slowed down dramatically. That flurocarbon may be the go. Will look into that, cheers mate!!
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PM
Pm sent fab.
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reefys
fab, wire will put off reefy fish as you found, heavier mono can do the same especially on more spooky fish. Lighter the better and hense "our" preference to using flurocarbon.
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I like using Jinkai Big John,
I like using Jinkai Big John, not sure about diameter size compared to flurocarbon, but it is supple to tie knots with
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Momoi
Jinkai is nice and my personal favourite is momoi. Supple, ties a great knot and not to bulky for its size.
The way I use to go through rigs, fluorocarbon was just burning money. If it's a one off annual trip though, it may be well worth it.
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