River Raider,

Did you happen to see the line test that was done in the October 2001 issue of Sport Fishing? In this very informative test suffix lines did very well beating out (in abrasion and tensile stength) most all of the other popular mono's including Maxima, Ande, Izor and Stren. Stren original beat all others in the abrasion rating but fell far short of Suffix (tritanium) in the tensile test.

In general, the test showed that monos held up far better than braided lines in abrasion tests while fluorocarbons demonstrated virtually no abrasion resistance whatsoever. You are making a very good choice going with the suffix for a mono. For braids, the original Tuf-line tested the best but Power Pro is very hard to beat IMHO. Best Regards,

RM