Hydro elastic whats going on ?

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- 22/01/2011 at 2:37 pm #44200
  TF_Anthonywaters
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  Havent been fishing for 6 weeks just sorting a few bits and bobs out for tomorrow and I have white hydro in 2 kits and its stretched !!! Its 8 inches too long now whats happened ?
- 22/01/2011 at 2:40 pm #129283
  TF_budnudd
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  Sounds like it’s perished to me mate! In short.. Game over!
- 22/01/2011 at 2:49 pm #129285
  TF_Anthonywaters
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  Seems to be working ok just 8 inch longer than it was !
- 22/01/2011 at 2:53 pm #129287
  TF_nick2b
  It’s the cold weather – my guess is you store your gear in a garage/shed?
  It happens to all hollow elastics. Warm it up, stretch it and see how it goes, it may return or you may have to shorten it a bit.
  Really need to bring top kits indoors when it is so cold if you are not using solids.
- 22/01/2011 at 6:12 pm #129307
  TF_badger
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  I had to cut 4″ of mine last week its best to take it of the connector end.
- 22/01/2011 at 6:22 pm #129309
  TF_Oggy
  I thought things went shorter in the cold. ~think
- 22/01/2011 at 7:11 pm #129317
  TF_craigm
  I wish mine would go 8″ longer in the cold, I’d be running up and down the street starkers.Or should I say the wife would make me. ~clap ~clap
- 22/01/2011 at 8:39 pm #129328
  TF_saratoga
  all i can say is that hydro is not what it once was,it now lasts as long as all the other hollow elastics not alot longer like it used to. if you looked after it you could get a couple of seasons out of it but now its only a couple of months.
- 22/01/2011 at 9:10 pm #129335
  TF_geepster
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  Lee has just called in and told me he is a few inches shorter in the cold weather and that you should be grateful….
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