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Seeing as you have tried both methods, let me ask this. Did you lose more fish with the belly-anchored bead chain setup during the strike (on and gone) or was it later during the fight?

With the swivel off the tail rigging, we miss quite a few fish on the strike, but generally lose very few during the fight once they've been hooked.

I just looked back on my logs and this is my experience with the tail hook rigging:
On any given trip, only 60-80% of strikes resulted in a solid hookup. In contrast, 90-100% of hookups were brought to the boat.
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