Rich12 is spot on the weak link is the hook-link.
I've started doing it because I don't know where I will fish when I leave home. I may need a 6x4s or 10x4s, if they are rigged up then it saves me a lot of time on the bank, maybe half an hour.
Whitty. Forgive me but I think you're wrong. No match guy would take a risk on losing fish, so "that's their lookout" makes it sound unsafe, and it's not at all.
I'd rather set up at home, make sure all my knots are 100% best I can do, and that the hooks are sharp etc. I use a magnifying lamp to tie the hooks too these days, as the old eyes! On the bank I use glasses but in wind or poor light, I'm never 100% sure I get it all right, at home I do. Also I drop small shot every time if I don't take great care, I've even dropped the whole lot off my knee once, a complete box of shot imagine. So for me its just sense.
Mark did you say you mostly use 6s 8s. Then olivetti's for the bigger weights? What about in summer when you need a strung out rig, like on the hemp and tares rig?
Each of use has to do what works for us at our age i guess. But the thicker line on ole rigs makes sense to me. I'm thinking 6' of line would be plenty really on any float I use?
Keep safe guys.
I've started doing it because I don't know where I will fish when I leave home. I may need a 6x4s or 10x4s, if they are rigged up then it saves me a lot of time on the bank, maybe half an hour.
Whitty. Forgive me but I think you're wrong. No match guy would take a risk on losing fish, so "that's their lookout" makes it sound unsafe, and it's not at all.
I'd rather set up at home, make sure all my knots are 100% best I can do, and that the hooks are sharp etc. I use a magnifying lamp to tie the hooks too these days, as the old eyes! On the bank I use glasses but in wind or poor light, I'm never 100% sure I get it all right, at home I do. Also I drop small shot every time if I don't take great care, I've even dropped the whole lot off my knee once, a complete box of shot imagine. So for me its just sense.
Mark did you say you mostly use 6s 8s. Then olivetti's for the bigger weights? What about in summer when you need a strung out rig, like on the hemp and tares rig?
Each of use has to do what works for us at our age i guess. But the thicker line on ole rigs makes sense to me. I'm thinking 6' of line would be plenty really on any float I use?
Keep safe guys.