300m pe4 vs 250 pe5
Submitted by Luke_B on Sun, 2010-10-31 13:37
afternoon fellas.
got myself a saltiga 4500 and was thinking of spooling it up with either 300m of 40lb braid or 250m of 50lb..not sure on what to do.
im planning on taking it out on a few charters chasing sambos so i dont want to spend a lot of money on varivas or anything like that as it might get tangled and i could loose a lot of line. so question is, should i go for more line capacity/less strength or go for slightly less line capacity/more strength? i have no clue on how long these big sambos run as ive never done it before so some help will be great.
cheers.
SamC
Posts: 2013
Date Joined: 30/08/06
Go the heaviest you can go
Go the heaviest you can go with reasonable line cap, especially for charter work!
Also depends on the rod, but would be going 250 of 5
Cheers,
Sam
cudbfishn
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Date Joined: 06/04/09
Yer i think it depends on
Yer i think it depends on your rod. Not much point going 50 lb on a 40 lb rod. there are some good class pe4 (60lb) braids out there but they are more expensive, and as you said. not much point spending too much for charter work.
carps
Posts: 126
Date Joined: 01/03/10
PE5
go the 5 for sure mate and esp on the charter work cos they prefer ppl using 80lb stuff. A good brand of line that i use on a catalina 4500 is black magic rainbow braid very impressed. Extremely similiar to the YGK Jigman, in fact you could say it looks like it comes out of the same factory! (-;