JCT
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Post by JCT on Feb 5, 2005 3:00:03 GMT -1
Hi all
As the new season looms, which will be, hopefully, my first as a member of the CHDAA, I need to get some tackle in order.
Firstly - on spinning. I saw the other thread on rods so have some suggestions there for a new rod, thank you. I wonder also if anyone has any advice on spinning line.
Nomlas, you were using a sort of braid when I fished with you in September. You liked the fact there was no give, like with mono. What do others feel and is there a particularly good brand?
Worming - this is not something I have a huge amount of experience with. However, having seen an 18 pounder come out of the Towy on a worm I'm game to try anything. I'm just not sure of the rig. Would people like to share how to rig up a sewin worm rig?
Cheers and thanks in advance
James
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Post by Paul Dunstan on Feb 5, 2005 6:35:23 GMT -1
I've been using braid for a few seasons now, both on fixed spool and multiplier - and I love it. Favourite brand - Spider wire - n my fixed spool I use 14lb breaking strain. I've recently picked up 300yds of Power Pro, 20lb braid for about £10.50 courtesy of ebay (from the US) that's about the same diameter as 6lb monofil. With braid it's possible to cast very light baits a long way on a breaking strain that gives a great deal of confidence. I've also got some 30lb braid that I'm reluctant to use - from time to time you do get hooked up in a tree and if Diawlbach isn't around with his kayak it can be hard work breaking off with braid - I'm sometimes afraid that I'm going to pull the far bank to my bank! I use a grinner knot to join a monofil 'leader' to the end of the braid - see the link below - and on the business there's usually a 9 or 11cm rapala. www.rackelhanen.se/images/grinner.gifI'm no expert on worming I'm afraid.
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Post by Paul Dunstan on Feb 5, 2005 10:59:49 GMT -1
All this talk of spinning got the juices stirring so I took a rod for a walk along the bank of a local stream. One small pike and two 2lb plus perch!
Life is sweet!
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Post by charlieH on Feb 5, 2005 11:41:26 GMT -1
A question on these ultra-strong braided lines. I was attracted to them, not least because I resent buying monofil every year when I spin so little, and I understand the braid doesn't degrade over time. However I was put off it by my mate on the Wye. Using it on multiplying reels, he said that when playing a fish he found it tended to bed into the lower coils when under strain, which meant that it came off the spool jerkily and even risked seizing up altogether.
It occurs to me that this might only be a problem with heavier spinning tackle, where your reel tension is set tighter. Also possibly that it might occur more with multipliers, where the line is laid in more or less parallel turns onto the spool, whereas a fixed spool reel lays the line across the previous turns, preventing this bedding in.
Gethyn/Paul/anyone, have you tried braid on multipliers, and if so how have you found it?
Secondly, how does it stand up to abrasion? This seems to me an area where fine diameter lines can be at a disadvantage, as a nick in thin line will weaken it far more than a nick of the same depth in conventional line.
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Post by Paul Dunstan on Feb 5, 2005 12:54:04 GMT -1
The newer generations of braid are not as 'soft' as earlier types. The newer ones, made from fused Spectra / Dyneema (spelling?) fibres tend not to have the unpleasant characteristic of 'bedding in'. I sometimes use a 6' 6'', crank handled baitcaster with an Abu Ultracast multiplier loaded with Spiderwire and it will throw a 7cm countdown rapala across the Teifi - great fun with summer sewin and I've even had a couple of salmon up to 10lb on it. No problems with bedding in during normal fishing, casting or after landing heavy fish.
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