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Tried a cable-laid dredge line vs a braided one on a 14 inch cutterhead last month
The cable-laid line kept kinking on me during a tight bend near the Norfolk port channel. I swapped to a braided line from a buddy’s recommendation and it ran smooth for the whole 8 hour shift with zero snags. Anyone else have better luck with one type over the other on tricky jobs?
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karen_west5922h ago
Respectfully, I've had the opposite luck-braided lines frayed on me in the same muck.
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blakem3720h ago
My uncle ran a 12 inch rig near Savannah and swore by cable-laid lines until his deckhand got a kink so bad it whipped back and nearly took his ear off. I stuck with braided after that story even though they fray in gravelly mud.
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