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binka
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This is something that’s been going around in my mind for some time and despite always doing perfectly ok with mono I’ve finally made the decision to go with fluorocarbon hooklinks and leaders for much of my bigger fish targeting this coming season purely as an experiment, particularly on the rivers.
I'm adding the leader for its low visibility and not as a heavy shock leader to aid casting, much of my river fishing is done under or very close to the rod tip.
Despite the stiffness issue I have a friend who religiously uses flouro hooklinks and does extremely well on them, I’ve seen footage of fish spooking off of a taught flouro line presumably because they suddenly feel something they can’t see (as opposed to a visible and/or slack line which is not deterring the fish) but I don’t anticipate it being a problem.
Just wondering what others thoughts are as a generalisation?
I’ve also been reading up on copolymer but am struggling to see where this might fit into the picture, It appears to me to be a halfway house between mono and flouro in which case I would expect a benefit for choosing it… More supple perhaps?
I would also be interested to hear if anyone is using copolymer to any great effect and what they believe are the benefits?
I'm adding the leader for its low visibility and not as a heavy shock leader to aid casting, much of my river fishing is done under or very close to the rod tip.
Despite the stiffness issue I have a friend who religiously uses flouro hooklinks and does extremely well on them, I’ve seen footage of fish spooking off of a taught flouro line presumably because they suddenly feel something they can’t see (as opposed to a visible and/or slack line which is not deterring the fish) but I don’t anticipate it being a problem.
Just wondering what others thoughts are as a generalisation?
I’ve also been reading up on copolymer but am struggling to see where this might fit into the picture, It appears to me to be a halfway house between mono and flouro in which case I would expect a benefit for choosing it… More supple perhaps?
I would also be interested to hear if anyone is using copolymer to any great effect and what they believe are the benefits?