heavy leaders/ run and drops

[finlessbrown]

i used to use 20lb seguar flouro but lost a huge fish last week so i switched to 50lb segaur. i had plenty of flags but they would run it abut 50 feet and drop it. has anyone else experienced this or was it just one of those days?

[taggin out]

Its been like that all year in vt.

[PIKE FISHERMAN]

I'd say its one of them days. But they will likely feel the 50 lb more compared to 20.

I use 50 lb mono, and have some good days, and some bad.

[Wiener]

Some days you can do nothing wrong, some days nothing right.

That's why it's called fishing, instead of catching.

#50 Lb Might be over kill, but I would look for other reasons for the drops.

Did the fish feel resistance ?  Tip up working smoothly?

Did the fish pull the line through some weeds letting him know something was not right?


Lots of things can go wrong.

Here's what you could try:

Take a rubber band and pull off 10 feet of line deeper than you want to fish.  Tie the rubber band around your line with a couple of half hitches.  open the loop on the rubber band and slide it over the spool on your tip up.  re-wrap the line onto the spool by hand to the depth you want to fish, and set up your tip up normally.

Now a fish hits, runs off 10 feet of line, the rubber band pulls on the line (setting the hooks) and then the fish breaks the rubber band and continues to run.  Only difference is he can't drop the bait because the hooks have been set.


Hope this helps,

Wiener