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Old 01-18-2007, 01:19 PM   #4
Mike P
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Originally Posted by Slipknot View Post
Was it the heavy clip? I ask because the lighter one might be ok for schoolies but I wouldn't even trust it for that.

It seems it would take a lot of pressure to straighten out one of those clips. We use them in the canal with tremendous pressure on them and they never fail.

I used to do what you did so I could quickly change out my leaders when they wore out, but stopped that.
I used them all season last year and none failed. As Slip said, the pressure we put on fish is tremendous. 50 or 65# braid, maybe 30" of mono leader, heavy jigs, All Star 1209s and reels that can hold 12# of drag all night. My biggest weighed fish of the year (33#) probably didn't run off more than 6-10 feet of drag, in a 4 kt current.

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