#325443 - 12/27/05 07:34 PM
Re: Cannot be pleased with modern day fishing line
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Juvenile at Sea
Registered: 01/05/03
Posts: 237
Loc: Des Moines, Wa
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I'd enjoy it in something silky and thread-like.....how about you?
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#325444 - 12/27/05 08:05 PM
Re: Cannot be pleased with modern day fishing line
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Fish Fear Me
Registered: 10/12/05
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Loc: Port Angeles
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#325445 - 12/27/05 09:56 PM
Re: Cannot be pleased with modern day fishing line
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Returning Adult
Registered: 01/19/04
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Loc: Grand Rapids,MI
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#325446 - 12/27/05 11:20 PM
Re: Cannot be pleased with modern day fishing line
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Eyed Egg
Registered: 12/11/05
Posts: 5
Loc: everett,washington
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I strongly recommend power pro. Been guiding in alaska going on sixteen years and I have tried just about every line imaginable. You will save money in the long run with this stuff. I used to change my spools on all my reels 3 or 4 times in one King season. now I can use the same spool for two seasons. you can also feel absolutely everything with this line. The polomar knot is the best knot for this line. It takes a little getting used to but once you get used to it you will never look at another line.
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#325447 - 12/28/05 11:14 AM
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River Nutrients
Registered: 08/26/04
Posts: 2744
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I poop on any and all braided lines for anybody drift fishing the meatlines. It should be outlawed . If your off fishing alone, or in your boat trolling its good stuff, but if someone is fishing that crap next to me its almost guaranteed to be costing me a few leaders and maybe a fish or two. The knots it makes when it tangles are not worth the trouble. Now let me qualify this statement, anybody on this board posting probably is far ahead of the average weekend warrior. That means your in the top 5%. If I was fishing next to anybody here and they were using braids I wouldn't even notice. Its the other 95% of the bankies that give me trouble with thier Powerpro. Idiots who cast out of turn, retards who don't reel in when someone nearby hooks up, morons who cast over someone who already has a fish on, and the developmentally delayed who won't open the bail/go freespool when they get tangled on someone elses fish. And another thing, its not that someone doesn't know what they are doing that really bothers me, its the not listening, obnoxious "don't tell me how to fish", brown label beer drinking, wife beater shirt wearing, "I was in the military" (yea like the Air Force is really 'miitary'), attitudes of the weekend warriors, 1st Battalion of the Blue Creek Brigade that really drive me crazy. They shouldn't be allowed anything more then 8 pound mono, tied straight to the end of a stick. A really short stick. But I'll keep my true feelings to myself.
My recommendation for drift fishing is Yozuri for any lines 15 pound test or heavier. I've gone through almost every line you've mentioned and a few you didn't. Their copolymer fluoro over mono is fantastic for a wide range of applications. Not as stiff as straight fluoro, great knot strength, abrasion resistance as good as maxima, lower stretch then mono, and good strength to diameter ratio. I buy 1,000 yard spools on ebay for about $18.
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