pherron Posted August 30, 2005 Report Share Posted August 30, 2005 first post on this forum, been a member for ages and today decided to "take the plunge!", so HI everyone Read a lot on this forum about different materials, I personally have used weighted tubing in the past (but found it a bit of a pain to work with) I am now using Lead core and think it's excellent but cant help feeling that a clearer and thinner material such as flouro carbon will only prove more effective on the heavily pressured day ticket waters I am fishing Can someone give me the positives and negatives of all the materials above and provide some advice on using flouro carbon as a shock leader? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coops_northants Posted August 30, 2005 Report Share Posted August 30, 2005 Loads of pros and cons to all of the materials. I use leadcore and fluro mainly. but fishing fluro slack in clear water seems not too good unless the fluro is dead straight as it pops up and is visable against the bottom. I dont like tube one bit but thats just my oppinion. leadcore is fairly universal and does most jobs but i like fluro for bag rigs/method where the bait and lead/frame are close together. If you use fluro for a leader i recomend using a uni to uni knot to join as the leader knot slips too easily. you dont need to many turns though i use 4 in 15lb ghost to 12lb duo. If you use inline leads then get some taipered sleives for the lead to stop the line catching. (i use the ones off the fox samll method feeders as these are perfect size) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humpy Posted August 31, 2005 Report Share Posted August 31, 2005 i use the use the krsyton score and esp dom't have no problems but i don't really like flurocarbon. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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