I am now making all of my leaders. I'm crimping rather than tying my swivels to the leaders. All leaders are 1.4m to allow for loss of mono when tying to the mainline .
All my 150g+ poppers/stickbaits have 300lb split rings for attaching to leaders and hooks. Poppers btw 100-150g have 200lb swivels and those under 100g have 150lb swivels. I'll be throwing these from the beaches for bluefin trevally, small GTs, groupers, snappers, etc.
I also have an assortment of flies for bones, milkfish and threadfin salmon. I will be using 25lb flouro as a leader, but I'm concerned this could be too heavy. I may step this to 20 or 15lb flouro. I figured I may end up hooking trevally or other reef fish in the process of fishing bones. With 25lb I think I'd lose fewer flies.
Thoughts? One thing is certain. I'm ready to have a great time.
