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Old 06-02-2021, 06:41 PM   #1
numbskull
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I've used Diawa Samurai 55# test and have been happy with it. I attach a 8-9 ft shock leader of 50# fluoro with an FG knot positioned between the first two collector guides. The shock leader handles most of the abrasion if I try to muscle a fish out. If this fails then I back off the drag and hope the fish will swim itself out. Maybe 1/2 the time it does. No braid is going to be abrasion resistant when it touchs a sharp surface under tension although often rocks are covered in enough seaweed that there is some cushioning. All that said I lose more large fish than I land, more often to getting rubbed off than cut off.
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