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08-14-2008, 10:52 AM
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Registered Grandpa
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: east coast
Posts: 8,592
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#50 line
I have always used #14 or#20 Fireline on my 8'6 and 9' spinning rods and wouldn't change.
I have an 11' that i wasn't happy with the #30 Fireline and switched to #50 Power pro last year. Don't like the feel at all.
What do you guys like in the #50 range?
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" Choose Life "
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08-14-2008, 10:55 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
Posts: 18,203
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I am liking the suffix braid, 1st year using it and so far so good.
No wind knots and very supple....not stiff
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"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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08-14-2008, 11:23 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Cumberland, RI
Posts: 2,264
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Suffix 65. I'll give up the extra distance. The 65 is TOUGH
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Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement -- Keith Benning
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08-14-2008, 11:33 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Sunderland, VT, Island Heights, NJ, & Montauk, NY
Posts: 18
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Also having a positive experience with Sufix 50 on a 706z and a 10' lami. No wind knots and I can see the braid easier to tie knots.
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08-14-2008, 11:38 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 3,650
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Might as well throw mono if you're going to use 50# braid. With 50# braid the diameter is about the same as mono, so you don't get much improved distance, and you don't get the resistance to abrasion that you get with mono or a hybrid mono. Fifty pound braid gives you the worst of both worlds.
I like thirty pound braid when distance is needed and a hybrid mono when toughness is an issue.
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08-14-2008, 11:40 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 302
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Berkley Big Game braid - 50#. Good stuff !
I tried it at the suggestion of our resident lawyer/ditch jigger after trying almost every braid out there. Treasure found-search over.
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08-14-2008, 01:05 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
Posts: 8,158
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JPowers
Berkley Big Game braid - 50#. Good stuff !
I tried it at the suggestion of our resident lawyer/ditch jigger after trying almost every braid out there. Treasure found-search over.
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That Ditch Jigger guy's just an SOL blowhard 
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
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08-14-2008, 02:36 PM
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ditch boy
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: the sea
Posts: 664
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suffix braid....got it on all my spinning reels.
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08-14-2008, 05:58 PM
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Love em and leave em
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Dartmouth,Ma.
Posts: 165
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30# power pro for me,Tried the 50# and lost way too much distance
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08-14-2008, 07:08 PM
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Registered Grandpa
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: east coast
Posts: 8,592
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Thanks for all the info, i'll give the suffix or big game a try.
Joe your right on the mono, hate to admit it,
but i'm waay too slow anymore on a mono hook-up.  |
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08-14-2008, 07:09 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 114
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50 suffix just flipped it on my reel today.(stripped my reel and the outside i was fishing is now under. just like new again). but i find the suffix rounder than the power pro and can cast farther than the same diameter mono.
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08-14-2008, 08:16 PM
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Count on it, I'm going!
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 217
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The weave pattern makes the difference. Suffix is 6 weave and the Diawa surf is 8 weave (even better). It makes them rounder, smoother and flexible without being limp. It's the viagra of braid.
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08-15-2008, 08:01 AM
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Registered Grandpa
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: east coast
Posts: 8,592
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Brother Brian
It's the viagra of braid.
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Brother Brian, such talk.  |
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08-15-2008, 08:06 PM
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Albie Addicted
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Not the 7 mile slum
Posts: 285
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Berkley BGB in 50 for rocks/canal. 30 for beach. Better than all the others for spinning... Haven't tried Sufix yet tho.
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