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I ran out of my personal stash of several year old 34's this spring and bought a fresh gross of them and since spring I've had 3 complete failures with the #34 Coastlocks after years of almost flawless service. Came back as pretzels just from the hook set. In my opinion the current batch might not be the same quality as the old stuff and I had friends who also had unexplained failures so it's not just me at this point.
I've converted to Breakaways for the time being and have been very happy. No failures over several months. No pop offs either but as Tagger said, one slide off of a plug and I'll just start using a loop knot even though I really prefer a snap.
Be careful with the new ones DZ, I'm not sure what to make of them at this point....
I've got them on the shelves but I personally don't recommend them anymore.
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