Best Leader
Submitted by crasny1 on Mon, 2009-05-11 19:17
What do you all think is the best leadewr material and why?
Neels
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sunshine
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Shogun
Easy to tie, abrasion resistant and reasonably priced
sunshine
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And for tooth critters
Plastic coated seven strand (clear not black) anywhere around the archipeligo
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What strength are you looking at?
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i like jinkai but different
i like jinkai
but different leaders for different applications
crasny1
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All around
Just like to get a feel for the best leaders. I have my own choices. Nice to see how it stacks out with all the others.
Neels
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Galis YGK
Galis YGK Mono
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Momoi
Use momoi a fair bit, nice leader and ties a great knot. Probably not as abrasion resistant as some of the other brands though.
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HuggyB
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depends
bottom rigs - I'm liking the 110lb schneider, but I also use Penn 10x on occassions.
>10lb - Nitlon Fluorocarbon
20lb to 80lb - a mix of Penn 10x, Black Magic mono and Galis mono.
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flangies
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Jinkai and jinkai plus for
Jinkai and jinkai plus for me in 60/80lb
Black magic has also done really well for me in 60lb
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What size?
As Huggy said....Nitlon flourocarbon for less than 20 lb, but I only use lures with the lighter gear. For heavier lurecasting, like for salmon, I use Ande flouro (20-40 lb) and for driftbaiting, Penn 10x (40-60 lb). I use Black Magic supple for bottom bashing rigs (80-100 lb) and Black Magic tough for trolling leaders, 100 lb. Use 100 lb singlestrand wire in certain applications (Macks) but only if I know there's no chance for a tuna...
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I think I had jinkai soft
I think I had jinkai soft 80lb leader on for exmouth on my heavier rig and didn't lose an inch of it, probably just luck.
My trolling gear had a WOL and again I was lucky, didn;t get toothed.
My PE3 BB gear was just 40lb pen 10xand again it was unscathed.
Boy did I lose a lot of sinkers on paternosters till I moved up to 100lb but then some idiot fish kept biting my sinkers in exmouth.
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jinkai and black magic
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love penn 10x but black
love penn 10x
but black magic is also ok
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Leader pref!
I use many brands cransy but this is my pref;
Sufix-Sunline-YGK Galis FC Absorber for fluro carbon 10lb-60lb for all lure fishing & for kg fishing etc WHY....invisible, good abrassion resistence & longevity!
Jinkai PLUS 120lb for normal bottom bouncing WHY....easy to tie knots & abrassion resistence not bad....supple presentation. Second preference Momoi
Penn 10X 150lb for deepwater fishing WHY....has awesome abrassion resistence and i crimp it so knots arent an issue.
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for Jigging as such I use
for Jigging as such I use Varivas - only cause its quite subtle and excellent knot strenght. Bit on the pricy side here.
for making rigs for deepsea as much i use black magic. I got a roll of Pen 10X 100lb and when your tieing your dropper loop (i think thats whats it called) and you dont lube it enough it will break...had 3 rigs break on me in one day - learnt the hard way.
To be honest i havent experinmented with other lines to say which one is better. But to me line diameter matters. i hate threading line through the eye of the hook if it "just" fits.
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YGK
I like Galis YGK. Have used Black magic and Jinkai and they work well also.
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