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Whats the best braid?

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Scott Maybury:

--- Quote from: byron ford on July 27, 2011, 11:45:05 PM ---i was going to use dawia 80lbs boat braid, which i bought from the states in bulk an use on my heavy jigging set up, of am i best off buying the other braid you guys are talking about for my first trip or will this stuff be fine?

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Depends where you are fishing and how big the fish you expect to encounter are....a mate of mine used that when we went to Fiji and it was fine, but the average size of fish was not huge and the terrain is pretty friendly so you don't generally need to lock up and go all that hard. In terms of quality though if you already have that line (and haven't tried anything superior so you get that itchy feeling of damn, I wish I had X instead  :D) then I would give it a go if you think 80lb will be sufficient

Ben Furness:
Has anyone got pictures or a link on how this insertion method of tying a leader to hollow braid works?

Sam Loh:

--- Quote from: Patrick Naslund on July 28, 2011, 04:25:30 AM ---Sam.

I would suggest that you insert at least 3 feet of mono into jb hollow ans use jb130 instead of jb200.
 Then put about 13 kg tension on the wind on while you do the serving.

If you only use 1 feet mono insertion and no tension while serving, the mono has a big chanse of slipping 

( replying from my htc so some spelling might be off)

 Patrick

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Geee.. Patrick thanks for this piece of good advice. I realize your logic, now I must find a tool to serve it under 13kg

Salute

Patrick Naslund:
Sam.

I myself just use a doorhandle for the loop and a  13 kg weight attached to the end of the wind on.
( mono)
After I have  done the serve, I then do atleast 50 dead lifts with the same 13 kg weight to test the wind on/ serve.

Patrick.

jonathan_tan:
I use Varivas and YGK. Both have served me well.
As for knots, i just stick to fisherman knot, since i know that best.
Has not slipped on me so far, even when used with 200lb mono leader.

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