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Originally Posted by Mr. Sandman
You can even put a big hooked bucktail on these something that was near impossible before, esp if the hook eye had paint on it.
I like that for jigs
...I can't see how it is possible for the plug to come off without holding the snap in one hand and the plug in the other. Perhaps if the line slipped to the the other position and the fish got leverage somehow...perhaps... but I still can't see that happening every easily.
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I had breakaways come off on pencil poppers twice in a row, it happens. I think the popping action got the snap facing the other way and when the weight off the fish hitting it pulled, it took the plug right off the snap. That is all I can think of. It also happened to Gary2, he lost a real big fish because of one, but his tiger swimmers have thin wire so maybe that had something to do with that fish coming off. My situation came immediately after the hit, both times the fish swam off with my pencil
after that I started using split rings on pencils or tied direct to the leader.
those might look fine for swimmers but I don't trust them even with a split ring, I don't like the long distance at the bottom there, that space is smaller on the breakaways. They should be fine and easier for jigs though.
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