fire-line is no good?

[chingweiliao]

Hi S-B friends:

I went fishing last Friday at dawn time and acught a 37" S-B at river mouth around 8:20 PM. I will share all the pictures of my catches with you later whenever I reinstall my OS back to win2000 (Win Xp is really suck)! Nevertheless, if you happend to visit surland at PI, you will see my picture there!

I have replace my fire-line (50lb) to mono (40 lb), and my new setup:

a. 40 lb mono
b. fish-finder (slide better on it than on the fire line) with 4 oz bank sinker
c. Dazhii 5/0 circle hook
d. 36" 80 lb leader (mono)


and these new setups make me catch more fishes than what I had used before. I think the main reason is the no-stretch of fire-line makes S-B suspecious and drop my bait without swallowing it. For this, many theories of S-B fishing won't work properly--i.e. letgo the line or setup baitrunner; whereas by using mono the stretch of it buffer (alert) my response and comfort the S-B. It have time to swallow a bait and I have time to set the hook at the right moment.

Another thing regarding Dazhii circle hook is worthy to mentioned here. I actually, set my hook with strong pull and nail the small, large S-B and blue easily. I though I should raise my rod tip and set the hook slowly with circle hook, but it is not true by using Dazhii circle hook. Anyone know why, please comment a few words.

Ching-Wei Liao