Is there a right or wrong leader you can use? Is there one purposely made for stick bias/ poppers?

Cheers

JD

nothing wrong with that stuff.......its soft so knots will bed in nicely....esp FG and PR knots.

There are plenty of theories behind this....but most common is the wind blowing across the line ............the most likely cause is an overly spooled spool of braid.......Dont over spool with braid or get a rod with fuji kw guides(anti wind knot guides) that prevent wind knots. 

What reel you using?

Mate is this happening on first cast straight after a fresh respool? What can happen is over time with casting and retreiving, you are moving the rod to fast and winding in sloppy line. What happens then is say the top 50m of braid is really soft on the spool then when you go to cast the line is tight as heck when rod is loaded. The tight line then drags the "not-tight" line with it causing knots and all kinds of caose. What you can do is check the hardness of the spooling after say every 20 cast by squeezing the braid. If starting to feel soft just light flick lure out let it take all sloppy line and then simply wind the lure back onto spool (dont sweep). This will give you tight braid again on spool. 

I cast with 2 wraps of 130lb varivas on the spool of our saltigas with ah jb hollow 100lb and never have an issue. 

But worth a look see anyway mate.

Good advise from Ginga and kingyslayer i reckon......they are  out there doing it all the time..

Arron from the LBG section has used the same amount of trace on his sw18000 with his carpenter blue chaser for a long time and hasnt had any issues either....both lbg and charters.

      The soft braid would be my pick...seeing you have ruled out over spooling.

Strx has a point too.

This is a wicked statement also ^. You will find that casting with the rod doing the work will get you almost as far as giving it the goliath swing. But yes to much effort can cause this.

Madkeen how long is your PR? I have experimented with way to much leader on the spool and never had an issue? I guess it could be a combination of many things, cross winds, sloppy line, over spooled, fluro carbon. ...

We use Synit Van Deimen rods with K guides. All rods ranging from the x13 to x58 we have never had an issue. 

 Over powering the cast will cause it

 Too light a lure for the guide train/ braid spool configuration will cause it.

 Knots catching on the guide train will cause it.

 Casting into the wind will cause it.

 Over spooling the line on a spool will cause it.

K guides dont eliminate the effect, they only reduce the likelyhood of the line snagging on the guide by default of their  forward slant.

I'll try and explain it again for you..... 

When the line is travelling faster at the stripper guide than at the tip the line bunches up, and loops around guides/blank. Seeing as how the insert material in KW  guides is the same as used in other guides it will have the same drag co-efficient.  The only difference is the forward slanted guide feet are less prone to collecting the loops that accumulate when wind casts develop, therefore any wind cast developed loops slid forward off the guide....

I also have rods with KW guides, sorry but a sample of 2 isnt representive enough for me to be sold, and it flies in the face of the actual physics of wind knots.

I did say

"K guides dont eliminate the effect, they only reduce the likelyhood of the line snagging"

............there is a video on you tube showing you how the knots untangle themselves.....so its not so much they eliminate the knots happening.....they eliminate them causing trouble....the guides design untangles them so they dont cause a problem....will see if i can find the link.....I know synit use them a lot and they are a very well respected rod maker.

no sound on this but interesting....none the less.