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Leader Setup For Stickbaits

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Mark Harris:
Peter,

Brandon has given some excellent advice there.  I also suspect you are pulling too hard.

Gammas are the most unforgiving of stickbaits and practice makes perfect. Just keep at it.

Personally, I don't like using them when there is chop in the water and/or a serious cross current - it all becomes too hard, for me at least.  At those times I reach for something much more forgiving like a Craftbait Realbait.


--- Quote from: Peter Olesen on January 30, 2012, 07:11:33 PM ---Ha ha - if the line was not slack, I wouldn't be able to get it under water at all.

Cheers


--- Quote from: Brandon Khoo on January 30, 2012, 12:54:04 PM ---If your lure is turning upside down, then what is happening is that you are not getting the Gamma swimming at all. What you are doing is getting the line too taut before pulling on it. Srface stickbaits need slack in the line when you oull on it.

What I would suggest you work on is in intentionally having a degree of slack line when you are pulling on the lure.

It isn't anything to do with the hooks.

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Peter Olesen:
Thanks guys - much appreciated!

Brandon Khoo:
actually, it is a lot more compact than you might think. I had nothing to do so I decided to tie a couple and do a destruction test on them. The connection is strong as all hell. I've attached a photo of the connection next to a FG knot. The only issue I can see with it is the direction of the tag end and that it takes me longer to tie than a FG knot does

Kurt de Villiers:
thats what i needed! Thanks.

its not a 'loop knot' you tie in the mono, its just a loop and the catspaw keeps it that way.
kind of similiar to how i join single strand wite to a fly leader tippet section... put a loop in the single strand, feed the tippet through the loop and then nail knot it.

cheers

Brandon Khoo:
unless I've got it wrong, there is no loop knot per se. It's just a loop.

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