On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 20:27:44 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 19:09:41 -0500, John H
wrote:

I haven't had a good
reason for the 30' leaders, other than "that's the traditional way."
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30 feet sounds like a lot to me. I troll with wire line and use about
10 feet of heavy mono for a leader, but I'm no expert. Some days I
catch fish and some days I don't.

I have one wire rig, but I don't use it much unless I'm in and around
rocks and rocky bottom contours.

Inshore I do a lot of drifting rather than trolling - my personal
opinion is that the bait has a more natural presentation that way.
Don't really need wire for that.

Later,

Tom
S. Woodstock, CT
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