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Thursday, 25 January 2018

SeaKnight Braid

I retied the leader to my spool loaded with 30lb SeaKnight braid last night. While I was busy tying the leader I also stripped some of the line off to help prevent a recurrence  of the wind knots that had occurred on previous sessions. I used some of the line to carry out a breaking strain test so that I knew what I was dealing with and the results were very disappointing. I tied one end of a length of braid to something heavy and the other to a set of Avon scales and steadily increased the pressure. Over the course of several tests the line broke anywhere between 15 and 20lb pull.
I'll be buying a different brand of line and reloading my spool, before I do though I'll be repeating the pull test.



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