Braid - Whats on your reel?
 

Has anyone tried the new Diawa Samurai Braid with a spinning reel? I've gone down the Suffix route a few times and consistently end up with wind knots. Now I'm back to the love / hate relationship with PowerPro. PowerPro is nice because it's thin, but the random breakage is an issue from time to time.

I used Fireline from day one and have never looked back.

30# fireline

Definately Fireline #30. Its thick, gets ugly looking, and takes a few seconds for all of it to land after a cast, but lb for lb the strongest, toughest line I have used.

Suffix :kewl:. Haven't had a wind knot in a year and a half.

Yup, me too. Love the FIRE.

fireline 20#

I like power pro, the fireline I have used seems to have some kind of wax coating on it that makes it stiff.

40# PP.

40#PP on spinners, stren super braid on conv

Fireline #30 on Spinning gear works great after breaking it in. Pretty stiff right our of the box. Power Pro has done some wierd things...can fight a fish one minute then break for no apparent reason just stripping line by hand. Anybody know what's up with that?

50 pound Power Pro on my VS 200

65 pound Power Pro on my VS 250

20 lbs tuf line xp green.going on 2 years same spool,no wind knots.not stiff and had few issues with it.

Trying the Berkley Big Game 50# braid on 2 reels ... so far I like it alot ... Also trying 50# Cortland Master Braid on a conventional penn 980 for jiggs only .. Cast it all night ,, no problems .. Had to put a glove on because I put a groove in my thumb .. The only reason I had to do this was,, from burning the jigg in at end of drift,, so not to get caught on the edge ..

I've always used Cabelas Ripcord Si and have no problems with it.

Cortland Masterbraid :love:

Cortland Masterbraid - 30#, but may need to go to the 20# on a particular reel, as I don't get as much distance as I feel I should.

Still get wind knots from time to time, but over all not too many problems. Had far more with PP - but still love the mono.

65# Spiderwire Stealth on an Emblem Pro.

30# fireline on one and 50#powerpro on another

50# Sufix on VS250 ,30# PP on 711

20#-30# Fireline on my spinners.

65 lb PowerPro on my big levelwinds. 50 lb PowerPro on the ones I level myself.:kewl:

Varying pound tests of PP on everything except one 8000. I have Cortland on that and like that as well as I like PP. Thier is quite a bit of good things being said about fireline though isn' thier.

14-30 Fireline on my spinners, and 50-65 Big Game Braid on my conventionals.

50 Suffix on a 150 and 55 Diawa Samuri on a 200. Never had a problem with either one. The Diawa is an 8 weave and is stronger and thinner but not an extra $15 to $20 worth of better than Suffix (6 weave).

When its new its stiff but it breaks in and gets real limp.I've had mine on my Vs 150 going on 5 years now and still as strong as the day i put it on 20# test.

I found one of the problems about this with my friend its microwind Knots and i'm talking small.My buds line kept breaking and we could not figure it out for the longest time kept looking at the line close as can be and nothing.Took a while but he found one and he just gave it a tug and snap.PP cut itself very easily and these ever so tiny knots is what does it.

I am using 20-50 Power Pro on some of my reels. I have used fireline, spiderwire stealth and a few others. It's power pro for now.

I had mystery break offs with the 50 #pp but not the 30#.Thats why for the heavy line I went sufix but I'm getting an occasional wind knot when throwing well below my rods rating trying to load it and throwing in the wind.So for me it's chockable to user error.

30lb sufix on my vs 150
50lb sufix on my vs 250
50lb cortland master braid on my abu