Making your own quality wire traces

[webbfunk]

I have been making my own wire traces for sharking, and have had some bad experieneces with the bigger sharks. In that anything that puts on a decent run seems to pull out my own homemade traces. A few of these I have put down to a learning experience in that I have double crimped them but there has been a slight gap in between the 2 bits of wire. I'm assuming this is weaker than the wire being hard up against each other.

The better sharks that have been landed have actually been on pre-made ones from the shop ( 2 x 45cm long pre-mades to make a 90cm trace ).

Is it just that I have had a bit of a gap between the bits of wire or is there a secret to crimping? ( I have been using 40 kg crimps from Big W )

[Feral]

Are you using crimping pliers? I go and buy better quality crimps than the ones that come in the \"force Ten\" packs, I dont like them all that much. (The wire is fine, the crimps might be too, but I since I bought proper crimping pliers, I prefer the slightly bigger aluminium crimps)

[mackmauler]

double crimping can weaken the wire but your crimps arent holding so your simply not getting them tight enuf, what tool are you using? form a flemish eye in the wire before crimping, thatll be agood start to a stronger connection,

[webbfunk]

Am using crimping pliers...but I think they are \"force ten\" pliers......just as the crimps I have been using.

Mack mauler....sorry, but what do you mean by forming a flemish eye?

[webbfunk]

Are the crimps I'm using too wide? In that if I get the wire right beside each other ther is a flat section of crimp that is about 3mm wid.

[rumrunner]

hey webbfunk.

if you come on sunday with crayfish to the pin bring your gear with you so i can check it out?

im no pro on sharking at all mate but i am a mechanic and i have done a fair bit of crimping ova the years!

i also have a good idea you can try that i am yet to!

Ian

[webbfunk]

Will do rumrunner, lock it in.

[mackmauler]

try googling flemish eye a diagram should be on the net.

[johndoe]

hear ya go mate!

/>http://fishing-khaolak.com/knots/flemish_eye.html

[reef_raider]

i use penn crimps on multistrand wire and to crimp them up, ( a lot of people will dissagree with this) i use a hammer, it closes them tight as

[Tim a]

reef_raider wrote:

i use penn crimps on multistrand wire and to crimp them up, ( a lot of people will dissagree with this) i use a hammer, it closes them tight as

I sometimes do the same thing jake, with the smaller crimps I even just use a pair of normal pliars. Works well for me, haven't broken yet, however, if you were fishing for anything slightly larger I would invest in a crimping tool.

[reef_raider]

yeh i agree with tim obviously if your fishing for larger sharks you want everything to be perfect so invest in a good crimping tool

[pinkey]

ive caught 6 sharks all up, 5 of them on $1.50 for 6 baught packets of 225mm 30lb nylon coated wire trace from the loacl 7/11, never been busted/bitten off although the largest shark out of them was only 87cm..

[webbfunk]

Cheers Mack....found this if anyone else is interested.

/>http://www.marinews.com/knot_rigs_detail.php?recordid=20

[Feral]

This mob sell reasonable priced aluminium crimps.

/>http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Aluminium-Sleeves-0-7mm-for-40lb-mono_W0QQitemZ230040536592QQihZ013QQcategoryZ31706QQcmdZViewItem

Or you can get about 10 from BCF etc for the same price.

[kriso]

i buy the sure weld wire trace. put a hook on and then when i run the crimp i twist the tags around like i was going to tye a uni knot then crimp with pliers and melt the nylon coating together, havent had one come undone yet.