Breakaway on the rocks

[stripadan]

Originally Posted by Mike P

Coastlocks on plugs, Breakaways on jigs

Breakaways for plugging and split rings and improved clinch for jigging. I have had too many snaps open from the fishes mouth when jigging, you get the fish in and the hooked end of snap is stuck in jig eye. Never lost a fish but gave up tempting fate.

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by stripadan

Breakaways for plugging and split rings and improved clinch for jigging. I have had too many snaps open from the fishes mouth when jigging, you get the fish in and the hooked end of snap is stuck in jig eye. Never lost a fish but gave up tempting fate.

I started using the clips on jigs in the Canal last year and am still batting 1.000. And, I know guys with more than a few 30 and 40 pounders from the Canal, without clip failure. These are guys who fish 65# braid on All Star 1209s with 15 pounds of drag on the reel. I'm convinced. It's a clip--it can't open. And it's strong enough not to bend and straighten, even with all that pressure on it.

The clip is the least of my worries when a fish is peeling drag. Mostly, I worry about my leader. That's still the weak link between me and the fish.

[stripadan]

Originally Posted by Mike P

I started using the clips on jigs in the Canal last year and am still batting 1.000. And, I know guys with more than a few 30 and 40 pounders from the Canal, without clip failure. These are guys who fish 65# braid on All Star 1209s with 15 pounds of drag on the reel. I'm convinced. It's a clip--it can't open. And it's strong enough not to bend and straighten, even with all that pressure on it.

The clip is the least of my worries when a fish is peeling drag. Mostly, I worry about my leader. That's still the weak link between me and the fish.

I agree, just got in the habit of split rings long before breakaways were around. All my jigs are already rigged with rings so I just haven't tried the breakaways jigging. Funny, I just got off the phone with a buddy and we had this same conversation.
I'm waiting for Flaptail to tell how he uses the breakaways, and he has no problems with them.

[Slipknot]

Originally Posted by Mike P

I started using the clips on jigs in the Canal last year and am still batting 1.000. And, I know guys with more than a few 30 and 40 pounders from the Canal, without clip failure. These are guys who fish 65# braid on All Star 1209s with 15 pounds of drag on the reel. I'm convinced. It's a clip--it can't open. And it's strong enough not to bend and straighten, even with all that pressure on it.

The clip is the least of my worries when a fish is peeling drag. Mostly, I worry about my leader. That's still the weak link between me and the fish.

yep, 5 years now using them jigging, never a problem


try the 80 lb clips, the 50's are for fresh like Bigfish said

[BigFish]

Oh....and I don't know about the rest of you....I re-use the breakaways over and over! They don't seem to fatigue! Over the winter I will put them in a small zip lock bag and put a spray of WD-40 in there!