First off with schitzo, if your maxima was constantly fraying, you must have had a bad batch. Chameleon is pretty durable stuff. I'll have to pretty much agree with all above. Except, I use a combo of both. I usually run nothing but Chameleon on my baitcasters up to my swivel/weight. Then, depending on water clarity, I'll either run chameleon or UG leaders. I've never had a problem with success rates doing it this way. I've found that most rivers I fish are filled with quite alot of snags. Usually it's your weight that snags. So having that abrasion resistance helps. Plus the low stretch helps set the hook. When the water is cloudy to a dark green I'll run the chameleon since they won't be seeing much anyhow. Once it starts getting a light green to gin clear out come the UG. I know a couple years ago some line company (I can't remember who but it's one of the superlines) ran an add about abrasion resistance and had names of other lines in comparison. Most lines failed after 1-2 rotations, berkleys' hit around 4 rotations on the machine, and maxima ran 32. The line in question did 100. It's in one of the fishing mags. The amount of fish I've landed on maxima pulling them through snag infested slots won't have me changing anytime soon. Just have to change the setup (maxima itself makes their custom tapered fly leaders with a chameleon butt tapered into an UG tippet) so that must say something also. That's my .02, if any of you want to give up the old chameleon, send it my way...just kidding. But I've used it along time w/o problems.

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