Hook link braid is floating?

[serbusfish]

I recently purchased some hooks off ebay, only to find the braid used on them floats a little. I use PVA bags so in theory the hook link should end up buried under all my free bait, but surely after fish have been rummaging through it for a while it will become visible?

[chris71]

Get some tungsten putty...its like plasticine but weighs a lot...you can mold little blobs around your hooklink then it sinks!!

[serbusfish]

Get some tungsten putty...its like plasticine but weighs a lot...you can mold little blobs around your hooklink then it sinks!!

 

Nice tip, thanks!

[salokcinnodrog]

Many hooklink materials loop up off the lakebed, from monos, fluoros or braids, I think more often with shorter hooklinks.

 

The loop up occurs between the quick link or swivel and the hook or any counterbalance weight used at the hook end of the hooklink, i.e. pop-up putty or shot/depth charge etc, usually if the knot is tight and held firmly onto the link or swivel. It happens less with loop knots or ring swivels.

 

If you are concerned about it, then you can "mouse dropping" putty along the whole length with braid, or rub it in through the whole length, or even get a Kryston product called Drop Em, and mouse dropping with that on the other hooklink materials

[lupouluke]

Some braids that I have used have tiny pockets of air in and around them try soaking them for around an hour then squeezing them really tight to release the pockets of air out of them this usually helps them sink.

 

And as said tungsten putty is a big help and another way of using it is to just mold a piece around your hooklink and rub up and down the braid. This put a small amount of weight up and down the line and helps it sink.

 

and if they still float ... Stay away from Ebay haha

[spliff]

What I usually do is to warm up some tungsten putty them squeeze it onto the braid and rub it up and down a few times, so leaving some putty impregnated into it making it heavier.

[dunkel]

I use a 3/0 split shot. I guess depending on where you live that might illegal, but not where I live.

[willi4692]

I can't add anymore than what has already been said. What I will say is even with Mono hooklinks you will have issues with floating. Mono's will only sink once they have taken on water, so soak your mono lines before use.