Cheers Kevin, I also replace my leader after a fish, or a decent hook up, just wanted to make sure I wasnt using crap stuff Ill stick with what I have then!
Its amazing how quick a marlin can rough up a leader, this one was a fish that didnt stick, had it on long enough to clear the gear and it been scuffed up big time!
I would agree that it is likely to come from being rubbed on the fish. The photo above is the same piece, aout 2m of it is cloudy and 500mm is still good.
At the business end it is scuffed to buggery too. I might go and tie a length to the back of the cruiser and the other end around a post and see what happens to it
Raging Bull wrote: I would agree that it is likely to come from being rubbed on the fish. The photo above is the same piece, aout 2m of it is cloudy and 500mm is still good. At the business end it is scuffed to buggery too. I might go and tie a length to the back of the cruiser and the other end around a post and see what happens to it |
Thats sounds pretty awesome Lethal! I bet that had the bum clenched tight!
I made up a test rig since its too hot to do much else today. Took a loop around a tree and crimped it then a loop around the tow ball of the cruiser with another crimp.
These two photos are with the weight on and there is no change in the colour.
I went until it broke. What happened was the main line pullback through the crimp about 15cm until the tag end popped out of the crimp. Went a good crack, was like a 22 going off.
Now im concerned about my crimps, not my leader!
Whats peoples thoughts on crimps? Is one enough or should I use two? How tight? As tight as I can squeeze with one hand or two? Have heard people say you can damage the line if you do it too tight.
Thing with this test is that I put what I thought was the same amount of weight in to both crimps yet the one around the tree never moved.
got a heap of stretch out of it after the weight came on.
Surprising that it slipped. Could melt a ball in the tag end and see what fails?
Tried again,
This time I used a crimp to join two lines in the middle as well as a crimp to make the loop around the tree and tow ball. Used the net size crimp down and squeeed it as hard as I could, this time the line snapped away from any crimps so i guess thats that sorted, use smaller crimps and tweak em up good and tight!
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