Break away weights question

[Pointyfish]

Hi everyone , my name is Shaun and I'm in Australia. I have just started fishing for swords recently with mixed results. Unfortunately info is hard to get over here due to the fact very few anglers target swords.
I have been reading as much info off this site as I can but I have a question with regards to break away sinkers. The search I did on this site made it clear that the most common way to rig these was with a waxed loop attached to either your main line ( 50' from bait ) or top of the leader ( 30' footfrom bait ) and the sinker attached to the loop with a rubber band or copper wire.
I was wondering how you manage to set your bait down 300' feet without the bait and leader twisting/fouling the main line? Do you just lower it real slowwwwly? Or are you drifting fast enough to keep the bait from fouling the main line?
The way we have been rigging our weights is to attach the sinker to a 10' length of 6lb line and attach the other end of the 6lb line to the bend of the hook. This way it sinks bait first with no risk to fouling the main line. When a fish takes the bait the light line should break instantly.

[billspilingup]

Put the wax loop on your main line so it's far away from your bait, I like around 60 ft or so. Instead of using rubber bands or electrical wire and losing leads, take a small longline clip, zip tie your weights to it, and clip the longline clip onto the wax loop when letting your line out. It's real quick and you don't have to constantly buy lead.

When you let it out, let it out slow enough so the bait doesn't come back and spin around the main line. Not necessarily slow as molasses either... just don't freespool it like you're deep dropping. If you have any questions of whether or not your bait is tangled, crank it up (swords like a moving bait so it's not like you're wasting your time doing this) and check it.

[NightCrawler]

Originally Posted by billspilingup

Put the wax loop on your main line so it's far away from your bait, I like around 60 ft or so. Instead of using rubber bands or electrical wire and losing leads, take a small longline clip, zip tie your weights to it, and clip the longline clip onto the wax loop when letting your line out. It's real quick and you don't have to constantly buy lead.

except I don't screw with wax loops anymore. Take a #64 rubber band, and at 60-75feet from the bait, do 4 or 5 wraps over the line then take both loops of the ruber band and slide your LL clip trough the loops and then
back over your line. To release the weight just squeeze and pull up. If you're really good you'll catch the rubber band in mid air once it uncoils

[Tunachaser]

Originally Posted by billspilingup

Put the wax loop on your main line so it's far away from your bait, I like around 60 ft or so. Instead of using rubber bands or electrical wire and losing leads, take a small longline clip, zip tie your weights to it, and clip the longline clip onto the wax loop when letting your line out. It's real quick and you don't have to constantly buy lead.

When you let it out, let it out slow enough so the bait doesn't come back and spin around the main line. Not necessarily slow as molasses either... just don't freespool it like you're deep dropping. If you have any questions of whether or not your bait is tangled, crank it up (swords like a moving bait so it's not like you're wasting your time doing this) and check it.

We do it pretty much the same way Billspilingup describes. We also use the wax loops for the LP (30' from the bait) and for the depth markers/jugs (100' - 600' from the weight).

[Pointyfish]

Thanks everyone for the feedback. I'm going out again next week for another shot so I will give it a go the way you have described.