I have used the maxima you guys are raving about, and I personally think it sucks because of the low abrasion resistance. I caught a trophy steelie a few years back on Trilene XT, he ran me around rocks, even wrapped the line up on one of them, and the Trilene held. Nothin' else for this kid as far as mono. I did spool some of the 30# braid on my float rod as some of you had suggested, no real test yet.