Stainless Steel Wire or Piano Wire and Cable?

I like piano wire because you can get a bunch for cheap...so even though it rusts which is good for the fish if you have to leave the hook in...you can just retie if you have old rigs cause you have plenty of wire for cheap it just takes more time out of fishing so we'll generally make plenty of rigs before we get to the beach....and its easy to haywire

I go #19 wire.Cheap to buy and last longer and never gets cut.I have neverused panio wire,so i cant coment on that.

If you can find a place to buy it .........#19 you can get 2.5lbs for about 15-20 bucks and that lasts quite awhile..

i know that capitan harrys in miami has it,thats where the club gets it.they are on the net as well

We usually make the about 1 hour drive north of us to a shop just for it....just buy like 3 coils while we are there and it lasts awhile

Ok sounds like both will work well. Stainless I imagine would be hard to have a bite off. I did some research and the #19 piano and its rated 500lb while the stainless is rated 400lb. I think i will give both a shot.

I appreciate the advice guys. I am taking notes.

Anyone else have opinions?

Matt

I have always used galvanized 3/32 aircraft cable. I found 49strand stainless and used it for a while. The stainless will frey and come apart for some reason. every leader i have made useing galvanized does not. The galvanized doesnot frey near as bad as the stainless. It wil rust and ya have to replace it when it's rusted. I have never reeled a galvanized leader in that was dammaged to the point to falling apart. Also if ya have 2 hooks there is a problem with the first hook setting and the other hook faul hooking and the two hooks fighting one another. Any way the second hook is positioned presents problems with de hooking and the fish pulling the leader apart useing the hooks against one another. If pier fishing the second hook will faul up the roap so ya will only have one chance per roap.