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Topic: Hollow core braid is there any point?
Posted: 16 Jul 2017 at 4:53pm

Ara

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Hi there I have just watched a you tube clip on how to splice hollow core braid and serve by tackle direct on youtube.

In the demonstration he says that the serve which pretty much looks like a PR knot is 100% and feeding the top shot into the hollow braid is just a backup.

It seems to me you might as well just use solid braid as backing and use a PR knot to join them together am I missing something or is there no real point in paying for hollow braid and splicing needles?

Thanks

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Posted: 17 Jul 2017 at 1:45pm

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Are you sure it's not the other way around; the splice is 100% and the serve is just backup?

I've recently started to use hollow on a couple of my bigger setups; 65lb hollow with 100lb leader spliced in, then I serve it for all of maybe 1cm with some very light braid, you can't even feel it go through the guides when it's wet and I have pulled on it hard enough to break the mainline and the splice didn't let go.

I've tried pulling on a splice without any serve at all and it was solid as a house, the reason you serve is a. to stop the end of the hollow getting messy and b. to stop someone/something inadvertently pushing the hollow back up the leader, which will very quickly un-splice it, especially if wet.

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Posted: 17 Jul 2017 at 2:19pm

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Thanks for the info, have a look at the youtube clip and see what you think. the serve is probably 100mm long and very PR knot like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI-wPwmgmzg

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Posted: 11 Oct 2017 at 11:31am

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Ara, that serve is good but a dab of Zap CA glue on the rissuto knot he finishes the serve with will stop it unravelling.

Hollw is very expensive, as you say use solid braid and add a topshot with loop to loop connection, 100% strength

www.kavemantackle.co.nz

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