Wind on leaders queries
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Printed Date: 11 Aug 2026 at 6:03am
Topic: Wind on leaders queries
Posted By: Lurcher
Subject: Wind on leaders queries
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2004 at 6:21pm
| What weight would you use on 15 and 24 kg rigs used for trolling smaller skirted lures (1 foot long down to 4 inch), rapala's (cd14/18) and bibless minnows? |
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Posted By: obald
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2004 at 7:02pm
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Two bits to this in my mind, the wind-on itself and then the short leader to the lure. I like wind-ons. I fish short handed, by choice, (just two of us most of the season, sometimes three and very rarely more) from a small boat and it works for me. I have 400lb wind-ons on my 24kg and 37kg and 300lb on my 15kg bearing in mind I am mainly expecting to catch fish up to say 300lb - when I come across 600lb+ of Mrs Blue we'll deal with that situation on the fly - she'll be right I then have 6ft 'lure leaders' going down to 250lb for small (6") lures up to 400lb for my larger stuff (Andromedas and the like). That's just what I do and remember I had an atrocious hook up rate last season ------------- Random musings on all sorts of things http://obaldnz.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - http://obaldnz.blogspot.com/ 
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Posted By: Combi
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2004 at 9:46pm
| Go have a look at either Smart marine or Hunts sports in Milford and have a look at there loose pack wind-on leaders from SRM Custom Rods. They should both have 150, 200, 250 and 300 lb wind-ons in stock and the wipping on them is color coded for ease of identification. |