Bl...dy Braid
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Category: Saltwater Fishing
Forum Name: Soft Bait Fishing
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Topic: Bl...dy Braid
Posted By: tennut
Subject: Bl...dy Braid
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2008 at 4:32pm
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Hi all,does anyone know for sure if CRC Tackleguard is ok to spray on braid without damaging the braid? Recently hooked a fish, and the bl....dy braid parted at the reel!,probably lost 50 mtrs of braid.Hope CRC had nothing to do with it, just want to be sure.Thanks for any help |
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Posted By: of2fsh
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2008 at 5:48pm
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what make of braid, which colour and breaking strain ????had similar problems in the past ------------- 2009 and 2010 BERKLEY SOFTBAIT COMP CHAMPS,Runner up 2013 ( solo),winner 2013/14 longest kingfish nz fishing competition |
Posted By: Crunch
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2008 at 5:53pm
| I spray my reels with CRC 2.26 been doing it for years, spray it all over the braid I've never had it snap or do anything strange. What weight braid was it? |
Posted By: Barbary B
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2008 at 8:14pm
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It wasnt white was it? ------------- "Look ahead, look astern, look to weather, look to lea Look down along the coast of High Barbary..." |
Posted By: sooshee
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2008 at 9:13pm
| If it is made of 100% dyneema or spectra, then the CRC should not have affected it. |
Posted By: tennut
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2008 at 10:35pm
| Sorry, been out to tennis ,,, the braid was black berkley fireline.,4 pound BS i think. |
Posted By: Uncle
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2008 at 10:36pm
tennut, check that your line roller is alive & rolling.
If it's not, that could be your problem.
The single most important component on a s/p fixed spool reel is that roller, IMHO.
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tennut wrote:Posted By: tennut
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2008 at 6:40am
Thanks Uncle, been keeping an eye on it and think its fine, but i will check this morning
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Posted By: tightlines2
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2008 at 7:20am
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Hey Tennut, can we test it on Thursday after school? I'm all set just got to get through the next couple of days at school camp. ------------- Remember it's not the number of breaths you take that is important in life, but rather the number of times that life takes your breath away. |
Posted By: Amateur
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2008 at 9:55am
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I only use the Inox tennut. My Shimano hand book said not to spray products directly onto the reel so I don't, spray it on a cloth and give the reels and rods a wipe over. I'm too much of a newbie to argue with the manual.
Maybe it was just one of them big snappers I was watching you haul in that did the damage!  ------------- No half measures! |
Posted By: tennut
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2008 at 3:03pm
Bless you amateur,to be honest I dont think any weight at all went on, thats why Uncle may be right about bailarm rolling(or not!)Being budget concious my reel had no manual to check out,,,,I dont really know,i have never had a prob. with gear maintainence over the years,, maybe all this new lightweight strong gear is harder to look after I always spray/wipe my gear ,its really just the braid breaking for no apparent reason.Tightlines2,,yep, I will be waiting for you, phone meShould have first hand report for you to,,,, Im going out tomorrow!!!!Have fun at camp
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Posted By: Monty
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2008 at 7:11pm
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Just come back from the bayswater area, launched at birkenhead, nice 4 fatties. All fish from the other day GONE, needed to restock yummy. Will try photies but ???
Good luck out there guys.
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Posted By: tennut
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2008 at 8:11pm
Cheers Monts, our fish gone to,,oh well,have to go out again! Im out on solo tomorrow avo,,gonna try around Noises i think,TL2 is on school camp with 20 million kids! , but we will have a go Thursday after school till dark ,,if you guys are out PM us.I want to try some photos but havent got a clue how!.Well done on your 4.
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Posted By: Monty
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2008 at 9:07pm
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To get photies on you have to push the reply button on a post & you will get extra icons with a insert image button. Also your pic has to be a certain size OR when you browse & select, you can resize me thinks. My just can't come out of my pictures folder so am playing around with it
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Posted By: tennut
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2008 at 10:09pm
| Thanks Monts, ill give it a go next time I get some good pictures. |
Posted By: roddholder
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2008 at 9:18pm
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what may have happened is your line wasnt wound on tightly enough in the first place, and with the weight of the fish on, it cut into the line left on the spool and caused a crossover.
------------- she was only a fishermans daughter, but she reeled at the sight of my rod!. |
Posted By: tennut
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2008 at 10:24pm
Thank you eveyone for help/interest/ideas However, I have discovered cause of breakage, so with apologies to Berkley firstly and for wasting time,,,, what was happening was on my Okuma alumina,,just where the bail arm wire meets the roller thingy, there is a silly little sharp bit very small,but badly designed, that the braid can catch on if you are not aware(like me),and cuts braid VERY easily!!!I felt such a twit on discovering this I nearly didnt write this, but thought I should so others are aware of this problem.Thanks again to all for help
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Posted By: Far Quirk
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2008 at 7:58pm
| I had series of about 6 breakages on braid, some of it 8kg. I kept looking carefully at the top eye on the rod because that coincided with where the breaks were happening but couldn't see anything. Then one day after the 6th breakage I looked very carefully and there was a minute crack in the ceramic or whatever liner in the top ring. Replaced it, and problem solved. |
Posted By: Uncle
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2008 at 9:17pm
Simple way to check for damage to the guides-/-tip ring, is to pull a small piece of panty hose through.
If there is any damage ( often invisible to the naked eye) the panty hose will divulge all.
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Posted By: strx7
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2008 at 9:38pm
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better we careful playing with pantyhose there Bill. |
Posted By: Uncle
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2008 at 9:51pm
In this instance, it's nothing to do with "playing", it's fishing related
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