Todd, I generally agree on the size... If I was crewing I would drop down to 5mm and probably have the straight dyneema core on the retrieval end. But I drive, and the crew gets what the crew wants, cause life works out better that way.
"Do or do not. There is no try." - Yoda "Excuses are the tools of the weak and incompetent" - Two sista's I overheard in the hall "You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a complete idiot, but it helps"
