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Line and leader break offs when using high drag setting

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Nathan Tsao:
I run just a 2.5m leader and very heavy drags from boats, never had any mystery breakoffs like what you describe. If you are convinced its an issue of line packing on the spool, perhaps try wet packing your spools for greater compression. Most commercial fishermen will wet pack their large reels for the tightest pack possible. It could solve your problem?

Jussi Saarinen:
Nathan, all spools were originally spooled at high (+6 kg) pressure. The problem is that the last ca. 80 mtrs of line on the spool will not be as tight as the underlying (first ca. 200 mtrs) once you have made your first cast.

Brandon Khoo:
Jussi, with the break-offs on the braid, are you finding that the braid is stuck on the spool? That is, the braid is stuck to the point where it is really really hard getting it loose again? If so, that would appear to be a contributing factor.

I also think you need to be careful fishing really heavy pre-set drag with 100lb as it simply is more susceptible to shock loading.

I have seen in the past bad batches from time to time where lines are problematic.

I am not familiar with Frank's spooler. How does it work? Are you still winding the line onto the reel or is it a machine where the spool is removed from the reel and inserted on a machine?

Mark Harris:
It's the Busted Fishing manual spooler Brandon. Excellent piece of kit.

A bad batch of braid remains a possibility I think but perhaps less likely as two brands of line were involved.

Also it raises the thorny old question of fishing super high drags again, something I am inclined to do less and less.

If Jussi has evidence that the line was impacting as he says, then that remains the most likely culprit for the braid explosions I think?

For the two times that Varivas leader failed, then either a tail swipe or an unnoticed  nick are probably the most likely reasons?

Brandon Khoo:
Not necessarily - there were two brands but one was 100lb.

100lb braid won't handle really heavy drags as a strike setting and I've broken 130lb enough times to know it has a limit I can find. If you want to fish really heavy drags as a strike setting, i think you need to be thinking 150lb braid at least.

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