So you are happy to loose the pebbles though? If happy to loose pebbles I would try the paperclip but with a tail rubber. I think you'd get the pebble back when reeling on but you'd loose it every take. I reckon with a rubber you could ditch the ring and cotton. But would you still be worried the rubber may snag? I'm just looking at it to save time on prepping.
sorry Neal ,yes the whole point of it is for the weak link to break immediately on pickup , and yes I am trying to get away from dumping loads of leads , zero leads = more whiskey =
Passion for angling! Thanks for the reminder, haven't watched this for a few years and now in the process of downloading it to my pvr for a nice news year day in front of the box rewatching them I don't think I've ever seen catching the impossible so I'll be grabbing that too. Cheers gents good thread.