Stella 20000 capacity

[David Reverdito]

How much 80lb (PE5) Sunline jigging braid will a Stella 20000 hold? I have 300m, which I am sure won't be enough... How much more should I buy and what's the best knot to connect the parts with? Or would it be daft to load it up with 50lb FINS (got heaps of that) and then the 300m of PE5 on top of that?

[Mick Cunningham]

http://www.gtpopping.com/forum/index.php/topic,431.0.html    is that what your talking about 

i guess that you will need more than 300m 

[Cam Foley]

300m is enough put some mono backing under it and dont ever let a fish take you that far.

[Chris Young]

G'Day Duckers, put the fins on & top shot it with PE5, bit suss about puting mono under braid under extreme loads as it may damage the spool  . I doubt you'll ever get down to the join (on frigates) but if you want to be sure you could do a bimini double on both ends and the use catspaw to finish.

[Brandon Khoo]

On PE5, you'd be looking at about 600m of line. As Chris said, what you can do is underlay it with another braid and then join the two lines together. After some recent testing of knots that I have done, I'd only use what Chris suggested which is two bimimis joined by a catspaw. If you're backing with mono, you could use something like a FG or a PR if you have the equipment to do one.-f the type of fishing you do is generally limited to fish where you will not need more than 300m of PE5, get yourself a 10000 spool and keep the 20000 spool for heavier line.

I was amazed to read an article from a very well known fishing writer from about a year to two ago suggest a 20000 with 50lb braid. You'd need a bloody serious spool of braid to fill this! 

[David Reverdito]

Thanks guys.

I'll go the 50lb Fins then. About the connection, how many passes for the catspaw?

[Brandon Khoo]

For braid to braid, I'd use six

[David Reverdito]

Last question: how many turns for the bimini? In the flyfishing fraternity 70 turns seem to be the number most quoted

[Mick Cunningham]

it is about the same ... 70 turn,s

here is the info

http://www.gtpopping.com.au/biminitwist.php

cheer,s

[Brandon Khoo]

Iuse from 60 to 70 turns. 60 for the heavy braid (130lb onwards) and 70 for anything below. I should point out this is for popping as I want to keep the bimimi loop as short as possible. For jigging, I don't care as much about the length of the loop when jigging although I don't use line heavier than 100lb

[Luke Wyrsta]

David,

I use 70 turns for all biminis above 50lb.

[Matt Kilpatrick]

Hi guys, is there an issue with the PE line rotating about the spool? I had understood that the use of mono backing prevented the line from moving, but from what has been mentioned earlier that does not seem to be the case. Thanks.

[Luke Wyrsta]

Hi guys, is there an issue with the PE line rotating about the spool? I had understood that the use of mono backing prevented the line from moving, but from what has been mentioned earlier that does not seem to be the case. Thanks.

PE/Braid slips on the arbor. You either need to put a small layer or nylon backing on first so that the nylon grips to the arbor or apply a layer or tape.