Total Chaos

I'm running a 498gr Pile Driver arrow with both Rage Extreme 2 blade or the Tru Glo Titanium 4 blade out of a 60lb Hoyt Nitrum. Not the fastest bow but the arrows drive thru most anything. No issues! I'll take slow and heavy over fast and light.

I had a 200 set up with the 19 strand wire. I let the steel out and then 300ft of the 19 strand at 2.5 mph with a flasher fly and it did not hit bottom in 100 fow. A 500 copper would be hitting down to 110ft. Again it's not the same dive curve. It's also an expensive setup and 1 rod crosses it and that's the end of your 19 strand backing. To me the cost did not out weigh the benefits. I have since ditched the 19 strand backing. I rely on my 400 steel with braid backing and a torpedo weight of 4-8oz to get down where the copper would be. I will say the steel is much more user friendly then copper. That said copper still has a place in the water. They both have there good and bad.

It absolutely does not sink 22ft per 100' ft. I have a 200 and a 400ft and the 400' at trolling speeds around 2.5mph with a flasher fly only gets down about 73ft. Best you can do is head out and drop it down and see where it hits bottom.

I have a 57LC with 300 yards of 50lb Power Pro and 200 ft of weighted steel and its full. 300ft won't fit on a 47 LC.

I’ve run mine for 3 years now. I won’t be getting rid of mine any too soon. Not a single issue.

Go to there website and buy some!

Rod Buster, try loosing the drag and half hitch 2 loom bands or similar rubber band around the wire then go to the reel handle. I've been doing this for years and it works great. When the fish takes it the wire cuts the bands and your all good. Total Chaos