braid breaking strength

[MAKAI]

In reality if you put 25 pounds of pressure on your blank it would shatter long before that. I fish braid with at most a 1/4 breaking strength of the line. ( doubt it's even that high ). I use it for its sensitivity as opposed to its lock up ability.
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[puppet]

Most of the time my drag is set around ten.

50# is a buffer

My issue is... if age, nicks, and wear degrade the line to half...suddenly I am really near my drag setting.

Not sure on the odds of two 1500 yard spools from 2 different companies being bogus.

I did the test last fall and left the line spooled. I am not a big fish hunter...but it would hurt to loose a pb over weak line.

Originally Posted by MAKAI

In reality if you put 25 pounds of pressure on your blank it would shatter long before that. I fish braid with at most a 1/4 breaking strength of the line. ( doubt it's even that high ). I use it for its sensitivity as opposed to its lock up ability.
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[Sea Dangles]

Why do you change your line so much? I never change it until it is a problem. I see people replace rusty hooks too,seems like a waste.

[puppet]

Originally Posted by Sea Dangles

Why do you change your line so much? I never change it until it is a problem. I see people replace rusty hooks too,seems like a waste.

I don't change my line much. If I can get away with a season without
changing, I would...and sometimes I have. It really depends if I know
I have made a lot of contact with rocks. It happens ...and
sometimes it does make sense to change. Tf the line is abraded at 50' out ...not gonna leave it there.

I mostly buy the big spools because I got sick of the waste in the
smaller spools....like ending up with partial spools. I am not
into splicing a bunch of 50' segments together.

Now I have two big spools of line rated under the advertised breaking
strength.....nice move.

The samurai was on my reel all season...spooled once. I left it on
even after I knew the breaking strength was not accurate. I mostly
catch the small fish so it mostly doesn't matter, but there might be a
day it does matter.

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by Sea Dangles

Why do you change your line so much? I never change it until it is a problem. I see people replace rusty hooks too,seems like a waste.

One of the big problems that I had with Samauri was very poor abrasion resistance. Not the quality I want for the Canal.

With hooks, if it's only surface rust, I just hit them with the file. If the shank looks corroded enough that it might snap, that's when I replace it.