Respooling Tiagra Question

[wezbre]

Hello all,

 

ive just invested in a Shimano Tiagra 50W LRS and am wanting to spool with 24Kg Tiagra line. I'm hoping that someone can tell me if i am going to need backing on the reel to load 1000M of 24Kg.

Thank you in advance

[PaddyT]

The Tiagra 50WLRS is better suited to 37kg due to its fast drag curve, swap it for a 50w or a 30W LRSA for 24kg- you can use backing if you wish -dacron or with the change in gamefishing rules braid. Using a topshot systenm is a good one using splices to dacron - then you can just change the top 250 m every season or after a a few fish. If using braid as a backing I think the more serious gamefishos are using loop to loop conection- but I dont use braid backing so im not sure

[rickmarlin62]

50w will hold 1000mtrs of tiagra 24kg very neat...braid can be used but imo it gets wet and sits buried under topshot and doesn't dry out..rick

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On 11/18/2017 at 5:06 PM, PaddyT said:

The Tiagra 50WLRS is better suited to 37kg due to its fast drag curve, swap it for a 50w or a 30W LRSA for 24kg- you can use backing if you wish -dacron or with the change in gamefishing rules braid. Using a topshot systenm is a good one using splices to dacron - then you can just change the top 250 m every season or after a a few fish. If using braid as a backing I think the more serious gamefishos are using loop to loop conection- but I dont use braid backing so im not sure

Pretty sure the Game fishing association of australia didnt implement the rule change regarding braid