When I'm consistently fishing, say, 3-4 days a week, I like to always have fresh line, changing out the reels I've been using at least once every three trips. At $10 a spool, it gets pretty pricy. I've always used Maxima Ultragreen for my casting reels.

However, due to the high cost of changing a $10 spool once a week for three or four reels, I wanted to experiment.

At GI Joe's in Issaquah I noticed they carry a type of Maxima called Ivory Gold, or something like that. It comes in 1/2 pound spools for $9.99. For 10# line that correlates to about 1000 yards.

I tried it out, and was pleasantly surprised. I've been using it for going on a year now and I use it for both mainlines and leader material. Its toughness seems good, though perhaps not as tough as UG. It doesn't have much stretch, which is good, and it's a light gold in color, which seems to be fairly visible above water and fairly invisible under.

It's on all my reels now.

I tried it out because it was so inexpensive, but I've stuck with it because I like it. A ten dollar spool gives me about four reels full of line, but could be more for others as I use 5500's, which have a high line capacity, and I like to refill the entire spool rather than pile 100 yards on top of my old line.

GI Joe's in Issaquah is the only place I've seen it, though.

Fish on...

Todd