single strand or seven strand

Howdy pier rats. I am new to your forum but have been lurking it for quite some time. I was wondering if there are any advantages to the use of seven strand over the single strand wire. Currently I use single but as I lurk the forum I notice a lot of u guys telling people tu use the seven strand. Thanks for any info I will be down for my spring trip in couple of weeks. Hope the kings are in and good fishing to you guys.

i personally like to use single strand but i fish seven strand also. i just think single strand is stronger.I've got chewed threw a lot on seven personally

Normally i use 31lb single strand for king fishing off the pier

Its easier for an amateur like me to use seven strand. You just tie a simple figure 8 knot to the hook and swivel. The Haywire Twist isn't rocket science but is easy to kink and break.

Only been using it about a year, but i love single strand. Never lost anything using it.

I used single strand. I think the last pack I bought was Malin 27#. It lasted like 15 years, which just goes to show that I don't fish enough.......

BassPro has their own brand which seems good.

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Originally Posted by chillinfish

Its easier for an amateur like me to use seven strand. You just tie a simple figure 8 knot to the hook and swivel. The Haywire Twist isn't rocket science but is easy to kink and break.

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it might be cause ur not twisting the wire right there are a lot of different ways to do it whenever i tie a haywire twist ive never had it break or kink and ive hooked up on huge sharks and there pullin pretty dang hard. never a break or kink

I use both with overlapping success and failure.
Basically I like single strand for shorter leaders (less than a foot) and Sevenstrand for longer due to it's flexibility.
Singlestrand is more prone to kinks which weaken it (as per loosing a sailfish :-(
But Sevenstrand is more prone to mackerel 'chew threws', though John G recently showed me a neat trick to solve much of that ;-)

I would like for somebody to video and post it if they would stop by J&M or we could do it one morning on the pier,I just have to bring materials and a drill.BTW,I like 20lb sevenstrand with it twisted five inches up from the hook to prevent chew threw's. that long twist only takes a couple seconds with a drill.

I like to use single strand, personally.

I like both. Seven for Spaniards, single for everything else toothy.

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I would like for somebody to video and post it if they would stop by J&M or we could do it one morning on the pier,I just have to bring materials and a drill.BTW,I like 20lb sevenstrand with it twisted five inches up from the hook to prevent chew threw's. that long twist only takes a couple seconds with a drill.

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Note to self: Make room on pier cart for cordless drill. Ya'll need to stop coming up with all these tricks of the trade, I can't keep up!

Thanks for the feedback guys. Looks like I'm gonna be fine with the single strand.

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I would like for somebody to video and post it if they would stop by J&M or we could do it one morning on the pier,I just have to bring materials and a drill.BTW,I like 20lb sevenstrand with it twisted five inches up from the hook to prevent chew threw's. that long twist only takes a couple seconds with a drill.

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Well folks, I stopped by J&M, looked up John and we made a video in one take with no rehearsal. It is raw video with nothing edited and the format isn't the greatest, but I think everyone should get the idea of how, what and why.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8negrrRLRsU

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I noticed. Know how to embed a Youtube vid?

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It's working now.

Thanks for taking the time to video it DRH.

You're welcome and thank you too John.