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Eco
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Posted: Wed Mar 19th, 2008 06:59 pm |
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| What is everyones favorite lead set-up, length, pound test and swivel or snap? I primarily jig, but have caught some nice fish pulling wire. I have used mostly two leads, a 20-25ft and a 5-8ft with swivels and 25lb big game.
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Keith
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Posted: Wed Mar 19th, 2008 07:41 pm |
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I use 40’ and 20’ leads, sometimes I’ll use a 5’ kicker at the bottom.
I make my leads out of 20# Mason hard leader material.
The leads have a round bend snap on the end going to the bait and a good snap swivel to the shank.
Mason can be tough to tie a good knot in. The knot I use is called a jansic special.
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ebijack
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Posted: Thu Mar 20th, 2008 01:05 am |
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that depends on where in the river i'm fishing.. trenton i use 20/40, mid river 15/30 for the most part. 30lb test line with a snapswivel at the shank and a snap at the bait. i'm sure sparky will tell you what he's years of experience has taught him 
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mschaller
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Posted: Thu Mar 20th, 2008 01:46 pm |
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| 40/20/6....Berkley 30 lb XT, it was on sale. Last year it was 25 lb Berkley XT because I had a spool of it laying around. Homemade shanks clevices 10 inches apart. Snap swivels at both the shank and lure ends.
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Eco
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Posted: Thu Mar 20th, 2008 10:18 pm |
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| I knew everyone had a little differant setup, and leads can often be very important. It seams like i always am thinking about lead length with spinners, spoons , leadcore, copper ect. and on and on. If you dont put it were they want it , you only catch the dumb ones.
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mschaller
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Posted: Thu Mar 20th, 2008 10:46 pm |
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Eco wrote: I knew everyone had a little differant setup, and leads can often be very important. It seams like i always am thinking about lead length with spinners, spoons , leadcore, copper ect. and on and on. If you dont put it were they want it , you only catch the dumb ones.
And sometimes you can't even catch those.......
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goosewa
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Posted: Fri Mar 21st, 2008 09:43 pm |
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I used to run longer leads 20'/40', two years ago I switch over to shorter leads
More specifically an 8' lower and 18' upper. After looking through Romanack's Precision Trolling Book I took line length for the 1 foot depth curves listed for #7, #9 and #11's Rapala's and made that my bottom lead length. For my top lead I took the line length for the 2 foot depth curve and made that my upper lead.
Granted handlining Rapala's is different than long line trolling them. But, this change has worked well for me and I do not have the problem of breaking lips.
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MarkBodrie
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Posted: Fri Mar 21st, 2008 10:02 pm |
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| When using crawler harnesses does the leader length include the length of the crawler harness?
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mschaller
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Posted: Sat Mar 22nd, 2008 12:15 am |
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| You do have to take it into consideration. If you are running a 3 foot harness on top of your normal leader length you will probably hang up on bottom. Either shorten your leaders or shorten your harnesses.
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capt_paul
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Posted: Sun Mar 23rd, 2008 04:18 am |
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Mark
I would tell you to shorten your crawler harnesses to approximately 6 inches when using them for handlining. This works best when I throw meat at the walleye in the summer.
Paul Doute
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MarkBodrie
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Posted: Mon Mar 24th, 2008 10:24 pm |
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Thanks Mark and Paul I wasn't quite sure.
mark b
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Lunapier
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Posted: Mon May 26th, 2008 10:53 pm |
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goosewa wrote: I used to run longer leads 20'/40', two years ago I switch over to shorter leads
More specifically an 8' lower and 18' upper. After looking through Romanack's Precision Trolling Book I took line length for the 1 foot depth curves listed for #7, #9 and #11's Rapala's and made that my bottom lead length. For my top lead I took the line length for the 2 foot depth curve and made that my upper lead.
Granted handlining Rapala's is different than long line trolling them. But, this change has worked well for me and I do not have the problem of breaking lips.
If you're not breaking an occasional beak, you're missing some good fish that are hangin on the bottom!
Jerry Hinton
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