I learned a lesson on buying online, you don’t always get what you want. I started making my own paracord slip sinkers and have a nice supply of paracord and slingshot lead balls, but I was short on snaps for easy attach and detach from the line. So off the Cabela’s, Fleet Farm, Gander and Scheels, and wouldn’t you know it, could not find any decent snaps. So on to the Internet, and I happened upon a site the sells only in bulk, so I read all the info, all seemed legit, and it was a Texas company, so I ordered swivel snaps and just snaps, had to order 100 of each. Used them all summer, no issues, seemed like a good deal. By the way, the packaging had writing in Chinese, so I can guess where they were made.
A week ago we did our annual 3 generation trip to Lake of the Woods. Great trip, lots of fish. Typically, I catch the most, my son catches the biggest, and my dad kind of struggles with new technology. Well my son caught a 8 Lb Pout, and a bit later I caught a 10 Lb Pout. Then he caught a 15″ Sauger and I later caught a 17″ Sauger. He caught a 18″ Walleye and later I caught a 23″ and then a 24″ Walleye. All was good for me, but he seemed bummed. Well, then he hooked into a trophy Walleye, couldn’t tell you what size it was, but it was pushing the 30″ range if not over. And what happens, the line breaks, and he was fighting it well. SUCK. Except, when he finally looked at his line, the swivel snap came apart, the line did not break. The swivel snap came apart before the 6 Lb Flouro line broke. What a bummer, losing a trophy over a cheap swivel.
Anyway, I would rather hold it in my hand before I buy from now on, unless it is brand name, and even then there are so many fraud products in fraud packaging.
