Irie1

The guys at Trustworthy Hardware in Soldotna and several guides I know have all said the same thing.... Spiderwire Stealth is just re-packaged Whiplash. I have a spool of Moss Green Whiplash and a new spool of Tracer Yellow Stealth, and the weave in the braid is identical in both lines.

I have been looking rather unsuccessfully for a bright yellow hi-viz superbraid that is colorfast. Western Filaments told me their dye on the TUF Line XP was a vast improvement and would last longer than anything else out there. Well, not so. Even just spooling the stuff onto my reels resulted in the coating flaking off into a powder. The other downside to XP is the weave in the braid.... very coarse. Sounds like sandpaper going thru the guides and cuts skin like a serrated knife.

So far I like the hi-viz Stealth, but like the rest of them, it doesn't hold its color for very long either. Haven't tried PowerPro because they didn't have the yellow stuff at Sportco when I was first looking (that's when I first tried TUF Line XP). Looking at the Cabela's catalog, I see PowerPro sells for half again as much as 300 yd spool of Stealth, and Stren SuperBraid sells for even more.

To economize, I "top-off" my salmon reels with only 75 yds of superbraid. That part gets 99% of the wear and tear while the stuff underneath never sees the light of day. That way I can get three more refills out of one 300 yd spool of superbraid. The rest of the reel is spooled with 30# flyline backing (hollow Dacron) which lasts forever.