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06-04-2008, 11:55 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Portsmouth RI
Posts: 2,176
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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.
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06-04-2008, 12:13 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: North Fork
Posts: 2,260
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I used Fireline from day one and have never looked back.
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06-04-2008, 12:22 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: on a rock
Posts: 367
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30# fireline
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Go Bears!
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06-04-2008, 12:25 PM
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#4
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: East Taunton
Posts: 658
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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.
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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. ~Ernest Hemingway
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06-04-2008, 12:31 PM
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#5
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,139
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Suffix  . Haven't had a wind knot in a year and a half. |
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06-04-2008, 12:41 PM
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Here fishy fishy
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Whoville
Posts: 2,266
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Quote:
Originally Posted by eastendlu
I used Fireline from day one and have never looked back.
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Yup, me too. Love the FIRE. |
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06-04-2008, 12:44 PM
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Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
Posts: 13,425
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fireline 20#
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Frasier: Niles, I’ve just had the most marvelous idea for a website! People will post their opinions, cheeky bon mots, and insights, and others will reply in kind!
Niles: You have met “people”, haven’t you?
Lets Go Darwin
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06-04-2008, 12:47 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Mansfield
Posts: 4,834
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I like power pro, the fireline I have used seems to have some kind of wax coating on it that makes it stiff.
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06-04-2008, 12:56 PM
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My brother is bald
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Parts Unknown
Posts: 4,516
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40# PP.
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seals + plovers = 
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06-04-2008, 07:30 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: North Fork
Posts: 2,260
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Quote:
Originally Posted by buckman
I like power pro, the fireline I have used seems to have some kind of wax coating on it that makes it stiff.
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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. |
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06-04-2008, 01:09 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 4,716
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40#PP on spinners, stren super braid on conv
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06-04-2008, 02:51 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Warren, Vt
Posts: 5
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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?
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06-04-2008, 02:54 PM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Billerica, Ma.
Posts: 7,260
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50 pound Power Pro on my VS 200
65 pound Power Pro on my VS 250
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Surfcasting Full Throttle
Don't judge me Monkey 
Recreational Surfcaster 99.9% C&R
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06-04-2008, 03:04 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: CONNECTICUT
Posts: 851
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20 lbs tuf line xp green.going on 2 years same spool,no wind knots.not stiff and had few issues with it.
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06-04-2008, 03:20 PM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
Posts: 8,484
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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 ..
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Belcher Goonfoock (retired)
(dob 4-21-07)
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06-04-2008, 07:34 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: North Fork
Posts: 2,260
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Quote:
Originally Posted by VTRI
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?
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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. |
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06-04-2008, 07:48 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Framingham, MA, USA
Posts: 410
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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.
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06-04-2008, 03:25 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 10,295
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I've always used Cabelas Ripcord Si and have no problems with it.
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06-04-2008, 03:46 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
Posts: 21,690
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Cortland Masterbraid  |
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06-04-2008, 03:57 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: North Shore
Posts: 1,701
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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.
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"It was the blackest night! There was no moon in sight! (You know the stars ain't shinnin cause the sky's too tight) "
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06-04-2008, 04:09 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Shrewsbury,ma
Posts: 369
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65# Spiderwire Stealth on an Emblem Pro.
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Big Daddy-Bob Sr.
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06-04-2008, 04:09 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Marshfield, MA
Posts: 6,267
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30# fireline on one and 50#powerpro on another
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06-04-2008, 04:17 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: N.K.
Posts: 1,330
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50# Sufix on VS250 ,30# PP on 711
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06-04-2008, 04:48 PM
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I Had A BLAST!
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: I'm from Manhattan, Live in CT., but my heart is in SoCo!
Posts: 1,132
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20#-30# Fireline on my spinners.
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Be encouraging, not discouraging
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06-04-2008, 06:17 PM
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Scarecrow
Join Date: May 2003
Location: bedford ma
Posts: 637
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65 lb PowerPro on my big levelwinds. 50 lb PowerPro on the ones I level myself. |
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06-04-2008, 06:21 PM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
Posts: 9,511
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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.
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Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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06-04-2008, 06:28 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Pembroke,MA
Posts: 784
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14-30 Fireline on my spinners, and 50-65 Big Game Braid on my conventionals.
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06-04-2008, 07:15 PM
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Count on it, I'm going!
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 217
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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).
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06-04-2008, 08:07 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: N.K.
Posts: 1,330
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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.
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06-04-2008, 08:11 PM
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#30
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ditch boy
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: the sea
Posts: 664
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30lb sufix on my vs 150
50lb sufix on my vs 250
50lb cortland master braid on my abu
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