[Vic Smith]

On Sat, 2 May 2009 06:32:25 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On May 2, 7:13Â*am, Vic Smith wrote:
On Fri, 1 May 2009 15:57:26 -0700 (PDT), FishWisher

wrote:

Thursday was calmer and I headed for my honey hole on Suisun Bay -
about 25 miles downrivere. I hammered down the river and across the
bay in pretty lumpy conditions, and tried to fish while the boat
rocked and rolled. I managed one nice sturgeon on the outgo, but he
managed to release himself from the net after my leader broke! He was
probably in the mid-60" range.

Good stuff, Dale.
Figured you would use wire leader. Â*What's the point of mono leader?

--Vic

Mono is more forgiving, it stretches instead of breaking.

Yeah, but I've never had a steel leader break.
I see leaders as protection from teeth and abrasion.
Quick terminal changes too of course.
Mono gets weakened pretty fast if abraded, beside the sun working on
it. I replace my mono line pretty often - never keep it more than 3
years. Sometimes less if it feels weak doing a pull test.
But I use steel leaders practically forever.
Only get rid of them if they get kinked or the snaps get deformed.

--Vic