These are the answer to the biggest
problem of getting large fish close to the boat, at the end of a fight.
Traditionally, we all used a swivel connected to the double line, and
had a long heavy duty monofilament leader attached to the lure or bait.
This meant that the fish could only be brought as close to the boat,
as the length of the leader. Big game angling has unashamedly borrowed
a fixing technique from fly anglers, and removed the swivel right to
the end of the heavy leader, thus allowing the heavy leader to be wound
onto the reel.
Wind-on leaders rely on the principles of the Chinese Finger Lock, to grasp
the heavy monofilament leader in a sleeve of woven material. Early wind-ons
used fishing Dacron as the sleeve material, but found that the loop-to-loop
join between the Dacron and the doubled main line was too large, and occasionally
caused heavy twisting during trolling.
We make all our wind-ons with premium monofilament nylon, and use a hollow
braided spectra to form the sleeve unit. All connections are sealed with whippings
and a special adhesive to ensure the strength of our units. The spectra allows
a sleeve of up to 150lb strength, but is still smaller than the size of the
leader material (max. 400lb), thus ensuring easy passage through rollers and
rings to the reel. All the wind-ons end with a double crimped ball bearing
swivel with coastlock snap.Stocked in the following sizes:
• 150lb
• 250lb
• 400lb
For those
fishing lighter class weights that still wish to use the principle
of wind-ons, we also make these
in 80lb & 100lb sizes, but they do not have the spectra sleeves,
but they are still built to the same exacting standard as our big
game wind-ons.
80lb
Surf Wind on Leader.
We
also make Shark Surf Wind-on Leaders.
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Rigging trolling
lures for larger game species has become a bit of a ‘black art’, with numerous ‘authorities’ stating
that their method increases catch rates, and ensures firmer hook ups.
We at Excalibur Tackle have a fairly open mind about all the various
method and schemes for rigging lures except that the lure should troll
as the designer intended, and that the hooks should engage the fish.
To this end we make stiff rigs in a variety of configurations to suit
the market and the customer, but ‘keep our peace’ on advising
which to use or recommend.
All our stiff rigs are built with
400lb 49 strand stainless steel cable, with double crimps throughout.
Sealed within red heat shrink tubing to lock down the entire rig. The
hooks are from our Sabre Trolling range, and are sized as best we feel
is needed. Special or individual rigs can be made to order, sometimes
while customers wait.
Single hook
rigs:
8/0
9/0
10/0
11/0
Double hook rigs
:
8/0 180o Offset
9/0 90o Offset
9/0 180o Offset
10/0 90o Offset
10/0 180o Offset
11/0 90o Offset
11/0 180o Offset
Variations in the double hook
arrangements are endless, with combinations of hook size, along
with the introduction of variables in offset angle. Other than
those listed, variations we elect to build to customer order.
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30lb black nylon coated 7 strand stainless steel wire, with a crane
swivel on one end, and
a coastlock snap at the other; and all crimped with appropriate sized
sleeves. These come in 2 sizes, namely 12” and 18”; to
suit most anglers needs. The wire has been carefully chosen for flexibility
and strength. We can build variations to special
order, and these might include hooks or variations in length, to accord
with special customer needs.
Sold in 5 per pack.
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