Normally when shark fishing I use a non-coated 5ft 480lb multistrand leader with another single strand wire at 4 ft longSo normally I'm targeting sharks 5 ft or more but I recently heard that sharks smaller than that will get spooked off by all that steelI know sharks are sensitive to magnetic signals but I never thought steel leaders made much difference.Does anyone know if it's actually true that smaller sharks ( around 4ft) will get scared away from my bait with all that steel leadersIf so would 100 lb mono cut against the sharks teeth and skin on smaller sharks
You can but you need to knit a swatch, on a looser tension than you would for a knitted sweater,then felt it to find out how much it shrinksThis can be a bit hit and miss for a beginner.I prefer to knit a length of fabric,felt it then cut out the pieces as you would with bought fabricThis is a lot of bother though unless you must have a particular colour or somethingIt would be much easier to buy the fabric in the first place.
If you don't want it to look knitted, why not sew it? Knitting it then felting it sounds like an awful lot of trouble when you could just sew it.
Believe it or not a lot of guys use weed eater line for a leader after a short 12-18 wire leader wrapped in electrical tape with most of the hook wrapped as wellThe thing with using mono is while its done a lot from a charter boat, they know where you can target the smaller sharksAlso pulling them up from deep water as opposed to to the shore changes the angle of the line to keep it away from the tail and bodyIf you are fishing from the shore you don't have a choice in what's gonna bite your lineSharks are very sensitive to metal, people can be tooIf you have ever had a piece of aluminum foil touch a metal filling you know what I'm talking aboutBut while you have a better chance of hooking up with just mono, you have very little chance of landing the fishBut in the right situations it can be done.
