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Originally Posted by zimmy
from 06 reveiws thread...
Sounds like it could be a combination of things, maybe exacerbated by tying direct to braid. Did it fail where the braid was tied? Possibly the knot slid up the bar ( or whatever you'd call it where a lure would slide on ). I imagine that the leverage it would provide combined with the lack of stretch and force a big fish caused it to bend. Guess it could happen on the mono end the same way. Otherwise, unless there was a manufacturing defect, 80 or 100lb breaking strength should certainly outlast the line, hooks, etc.
I have only ever used them on the end of a mono leader and attached a lure to them. The lure has pretty much always stayed in the bend. I can't see how it would fail that way, but who knows... I find enough ways of losing big fish as it is...
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the clip bent out and actually opened the "arm" side where you slide the lure on. Similiar to when you open a paper clip. bend out one side . The deformation occured a the bottom of the loop. i still have the clip as a reminder, if i can find it and figure out how to resize a pic ill post it.
I tied a polamer from braid to breakaway and then used a 100lb spro swivel attached to 65 lb flouro witha 7/0 gami circle.
A friend that was with me and I were both pretty shocked. I/we have been fishing them for 2+ seasons and never had issues. It could have been a bad one in the package, but i see no reason to test it again myself.
its like using braid around boulder fields. I have heard people telling stories about the braid snapping on a rock with nice fish, but I had landed fish in the 30-35lb class in boulder fields with braid and never had an issue, at the end of the season I lost another nice fish, the last nice fish of the season, when the braid rubbed on a rock and parted. i plan to have a spool for braid and one for mono in the future depending on where i fish.