Thank you all. Just so happens there is a party store on the way to visit my mother in the memory care facility this hot afternoon...... Will check out the balloon aisle!
“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
Lately I don't go above 25 lb leader or mainline for stripers; typically my "heavy" setup is going to be a conventional reel with 25 lb flouro leader and 20 lb mainline. I'm usually too scared to get that close to rocks though so am not livelining into rockpiles either.
Sometimes I don't think it's makes a difference but for instance last year off p-town I noticed far less action on my reels that had 40 flouro & 30 mainline. I normally don't use use anything like that but had set them up thinking I could really haul fish into the boat; the result was I just caught less fish and went to the lighter stuff. Tried keeping the reels in play & went down to 20 lb leader but those rods still got completely outfished by the 20 leader & 17 lb mainline combination; seems like even with a 3 ft leader a heavy mono mainline can shy them off in some situations (but if any fish have had practice selecting safe food it's that mass off p-town!).
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