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Originally Posted by Slipknot
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.
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it was the heavy clip. I started using them at the canal for this purpose and i thought they gave the jigs nice action. so i was actually using 2, one for the jig and one for the leader. I have heard of the smaller ones failing on larger fish. I think the rating for the large ones is 100 or 150 lbs.
zimmy
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This is what I was figuring and tried to describe. You basically had a leverage situation and the bend is the fulcrum. While it is disconcerting that it happened, it seems like a freak accident. I don't know of any hardware that is 100% fail-proof. Overall, I have heard almost no other problems w/ them.
I agree that nothing is fail-proof, andit may have been a freak occurance, but one freak occurance is enough for me. There are enough other things to go wrong, I don't want to be worried about a clip while battling nice fish.
I have landed fish in the low to upper 30's with them...but this felt like a really nice fish.
It wasn't a long battle either, I had the fish on, a long steady run trying to slow her and slack.
it was the 5-6 fish of the night, none over 18 lbs.