Thanks Jon,
I'm a little confused by "I use short heavy fluorocarbon bite leader crimped at both ends and single mono leader tied directly to the loop while at the lure end I will use split ring to the loop"....I think the 1000mg antibiotics I'm on are doing my head in.
Does that mean you go braid - >mono leader -> flurocarbon (crimped at ends) -> lure ?
What poundage leader and trace do you use?
The reason for the 50lb as opposed to the 80lb was for capacity, as I was going to be using less drag I thought I would need more capacity than I have with 80lb. And if I drop some other lures down deep, would have more scope. 65lb is .016" compared to .012" for 50lb ,and I guess that would give me a fair bit too. I have a spare spool of 50, so will use that for a while and see how it goes.
Lure wise, it was going to be runbohs, bigfoot orion 70s, and 60g ulua/wahoos I was going to try - as well as halco maxs. I do also have a small FCL TCP, and several pencil poppers of various types.
Minnow wise, I was thinking along the lines of shibuki's as they seem the right weight and get good reviews. I have some sinking works minnows at the moment but also had a read of the tacklehouse fritz, but they might be too light at 42g .
Just a matter of practicing to see what casts well with the rod.
With the stickbaits and some other lures, on fin, any preference of single vs treble for mouth hookups?