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I declined because I had been there before, in the days before I learned that cheap usually equates to lost fish and poor performance. The problem is that visually they are copy perfect with high grade swivels from the likes of Berkley and unless you buy your swivels in a branded and sealed bag to ensure that you are getting the real thing, you would never know the difference – until the cheapo’s start breaking on you. By that time it is too late and the heavy fish that broke you up is lost forever.The use of swivels can sometimes make the difference between a pleasant days fishing and a day when you spend as much time making or changing leaders as actually fishing, especially if long leaders and cut bait is the method of the day. A point to remember is that small swivels turn much easier than large ones, so if you are using a fifteen pound leader use one or two small swivels, say size 10 which have a breaking strain of about 40 pounds. One occasion when big is not better!!Besides losing fish when you are boat fishing, these cheapo swivels can be lethal if using them to pendulum cast a five or six ounce sinker, because if that swivel pops whilst the cast is under full compression, you will have no idea which direction the sharp pointed sinker will fly, at a considerable speed. Ask me where I buy my swivels and I will tell you without hesitation that I buy them from Veals Mail Order because their Crane Swivels are American made Sampo’s which quite honestly I think are the very best and at £1.40 for 25 size 10’s is a good price for a top product.
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