Cheap pike leader material

I've been using Surflon for pike bite tippets for a while
now - it's a nylon coated braided stainless wire, which is
flexible enough to tie knots in. It works great, but it
sells for about $10 for a 15 foot spool.

Today, I accompanied my wife on a trip to a bead store, of
all things, and found "Bead-alon Beading Wire", which to my
eye, looks to be the exact same stuff as Surflon. I bought
a 30 foot spool for $2.95. (Just to keep balance in the
cosmos, they did sell spools of nylon monofilament for
about 5 times what it costs at fishing tackle stores.)

Kevin


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Kevin Vang wrote:
I've been using Surflon for pike bite tippets for a while
now - it's a nylon coated braided stainless wire, which is
flexible enough to tie knots in. It works great, but it
sells for about $10 for a 15 foot spool.

Today, I accompanied my wife on a trip to a bead store, of
all things, and found "Bead-alon Beading Wire", which to my
eye, looks to be the exact same stuff as Surflon. I bought
a 30 foot spool for $2.95. (Just to keep balance in the
cosmos, they did sell spools of nylon monofilament for
about 5 times what it costs at fishing tackle stores.)

Kevin

I still say you should use the hard wire and haywire twists. No
coiling, no unexpected failures.


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Sorry to follow up my own post (and why do people apologize for that,
anyway?), but here is more information.

This is Surflon:
http://www.americanfishingwire.com/surflon.html
and this is "Beadalon Beading Wire":
http://www.beadalon.com/seven.html

Kevin

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the beadalon I found at AC Moore has a stated "breakage" of 12lb. too bad as
this is a little light for what I wanted. But I picked it up anyway. Thanks for
the tip!


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the beadalon I found at AC Moore has a stated "breakage" of 12lb. too bad as
this is a little light for what I wanted. But I picked it up anyway. Thanks for
the tip!


-- so much fishing, so little time --
--please remuv the 'NOWAY2it' from my email addy to email me--