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gravel
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#1 Post by gravel »

Any one used heavy braid as a shockleader ie no strech low diameter there for compressing the rod better on load?
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#2 Post by fishinmidget »

the problem is with braid is if u mistime the cast without a finger guard nasty things happen. there is some other prob but i cant rember wat it is.
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#3 Post by dbrock »

some of the stronger casters wanna be carefull not to compress the rod past the limit with braid
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