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numbskull · 06-02-2021, 06:41 PM

I've used Diawa Samurai 55# test and have been happy with it. I attach a 8-9 ft shock leader of 50# fluoro with an FG knot positioned between the first two collector guides. The shock leader handles most of the abrasion if I try to muscle a fish out. If this fails then I back off the drag and hope the fish will swim itself out. Maybe 1/2 the time it does. No braid is going to be abrasion resistant when it touchs a sharp surface under tension although often rocks are covered in enough seaweed that there is some cushioning. All that said I lose more large fish than I land, more often to getting rubbed off than cut off.

06-02-2021, 06:41 PM	#3
numbskull Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master iTrader: (0) Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: over the hill Posts: 6,682	I've used Diawa Samurai 55# test and have been happy with it. I attach a 8-9 ft shock leader of 50# fluoro with an FG knot positioned between the first two collector guides. The shock leader handles most of the abrasion if I try to muscle a fish out. If this fails then I back off the drag and hope the fish will swim itself out. Maybe 1/2 the time it does. No braid is going to be abrasion resistant when it touchs a sharp surface under tension although often rocks are covered in enough seaweed that there is some cushioning. All that said I lose more large fish than I land, more often to getting rubbed off than cut off.