I made the switch a long time ago to a super braid line (Power Pro or Fireline) which greatly helped out my line twist problems.
I noticed while doing some vertical jigging with a whistler jig that my line was still very twisty, from what I suspect is the jig turning as it is dropped and raised by jigging.
I've got a swivel on it, but it doesn't seem to be doing it's job as everytime I pull the jig out of the water it starts spinning pretty fast and will spin for a little while.
I imagine a ball bearing swivel will take care of this problem, but the one that I tried last time (sorry, don't remember the brand, but it wasn't south bend) didn't seem to be much better... it alost seemed like the swivel had a high internal resisitance to spinning, at least more than I would guess a spinning jig would offer.
Does anyone have any better suggestions, or am I out of luck?
Wasn't terrible at a state park beach. Antelope island maybe. I wouldn't recommend it as a beach destination tho. Figured I was there, I'm getting in it.
The water looked and smelled disgusting with hundreds of thousands of birds sh*tting in there. About as gross as the Salton Sea. When I duck hunted there I didn't even want to touch the water.
It's kinda gross with the algae in the summer but I got in it anyway. Wanted to see the increased bouyancy at work. You can kinda tuck yourself into a ball and you'll just float with your head above water. When dry off you look diamond encrusted with the salt.
We went to the flats too. I dipped a tire on the rental car onto it just to say I’ve been there,but it was still pretty soft from winter melt. After seeing some moron in a BMW suv get dragged out of the muck I had no intention of repeating his stupidity.
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I made the switch a long time ago to a super braid line (Power Pro or Fireline) which greatly helped out my line twist problems.
I noticed while doing some vertical jigging with a whistler jig that my line was still very twisty, from what I suspect is the jig turning as it is dropped and raised by jigging.
I've got a swivel on it, but it doesn't seem to be doing it's job as everytime I pull the jig out of the water it starts spinning pretty fast and will spin for a little while.
I imagine a ball bearing swivel will take care of this problem, but the one that I tried last time (sorry, don't remember the brand, but it wasn't south bend) didn't seem to be much better... it alost seemed like the swivel had a high internal resisitance to spinning, at least more than I would guess a spinning jig would offer.
Does anyone have any better suggestions, or am I out of luck?
Thanks!
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