Really Rich,my slider never lands like a bag of spanners,must be doing something wrong then...
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Or casting then,I get the occasional split of float to shot on either float,it is all down to how you cast,unless casting into the wind,or an awkward side wind,generally i'm unlucky to get two minor tangles in a day(not retackle jobbies),similar with what you are talking about,sadly i'm so long in the tooth and i've fished the slider since the seventies,using loaded and unloaded floats,for the last fifteen years mostly unloaded....