I have only had that issue on the pointer 65. The easiest thing to do is replace with a small round split ring. If you remove and not have a split ring at all it may change the suspending as pointers are perfectly balanced to suspend level. Plus I quit using loop knots years ago as I broke off many good fish using loop knots. I tend to like to bump bottom when I fish cranks / jerks and for whatever reason using loop knots was worst on knot / line damage...
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