sandy wrote:

I use 5x when everybody else uses 7x--because I like
to be able to land the occasional big fish, and very few fishermen
there catch more than I do. So I don't think leader diameter
matters that much.

5x??? You must be joking. No one on ROFF uses anything finer than 3x.
You see, it stresses the poor fish too much. :-)

As far as 7x, the less said the better.

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