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Wind On Leaders

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Aaron Concord:
Dre,

Nomad tagged a few big blacks off the GBR in 2004 with 3 estimated over a 1000lb, the biggest being 1200 or so on my wind-ons.
The funny thing is, I made them all while under steam between ports off Queensland in the mother ship with none of the fancy pants stuff I use these days to make them more durable.
I was very pleased that they held together I can tell you!  The highest drag settings used were the 'sunset' position on the older 130TI Tiagras which is around 35kg.

Jamie,

The JB hollowcore is a terrific material to use for wind-ons, though it is more expensive and some people won't pay the extra!
Having said that, I am going to change to JB where I believe that the rot resistance may benefit the customer, let alone myself!
Dacron is still a very valid material to use, though there are merits in the hollow core braid that make sense to use it.

Aaron.

Mark Harris:
Aaron, would love to see some pics of your wind-ons.

Aaron Concord:
Mark,

I'll squeeze a few rounds off on the Nikon and post them up soon.

There has been an evolution of how they have been put together over the last 14 years!

Some of the early ones, while they worked, were far from pleasant to the eye.

A mate of mine showed me some improvements a few years ago and I have stuck with this secret formula since.......it was a way of utilizing no toxic glue to help the dacron or braid stick to the mono that had me by the short n curlies!!!!!!!!

Dre,
If you need some, just PM me mate!

Aaron.

Jon Jarvis:
The bloke that does my wind ons uses a UV glue. Seems to work pretty well so far.

Aaron Concord:
Jon,

If it's the same UV glue that is used in fly fishing for gluing knots, flies and fly lines, I have baulked at using it over the whip finish (the binding part where the mono merges from the dacron) and if it's a little bulbous, I've had a mate lose a few fish on his due to mackerel and wahoo biting at the clear little mound of glue as it flies through the water after a hookup.
We get problems here in South East Queensland where anything resembling a baitfish a times gets snapped at by toothy critters, to the point even white dacron can get too much attention so I use black instead!

Aaron.

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