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Old 03-22-2006, 08:50 AM   #1
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I had no problem

using braid on a penn slammer.

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Old 03-22-2006, 09:10 AM   #2
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If your gonna use power pro on a slammer, I'd go with 50 lb preferrably, 40 lb minimum.

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Old 03-22-2006, 09:19 AM   #3
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If your gonna use power pro on a slammer, I'd go with 50 lb preferrably, 40 lb minimum.
Huh? I threw 30... no problem whatsoever. Had a buddy who came up to visit use it for a weekend. Never used braid, he also had no problem.

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Old 03-22-2006, 09:26 AM   #4
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I ran 30lb fireline on my slammer 560 and never had a problem. Be sure to put some mono backing on first though.

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Old 03-22-2006, 09:33 AM   #5
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just had my slammer 560 spooled with 30 pound power pro based on the recommendations of people on this board and the guys at surfland, we shall see. They used dacron backing.
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Old 03-22-2006, 09:40 AM   #6
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If it is an older penn model, 5500ss, 704, 706, etc... I would recommend fireline instead of pp. I don't own a slammer so I don't know if pp works well on it.
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Huh? I threw 30... no problem whatsoever. Had a buddy who came up to visit use it for a weekend. Never used braid, he also had no problem.
Personal preference I guess. 30 lb felt way to light to me and I found that wind nots went down considerably with 50 lb. Now I've switched to using only fireline and stren superbraid, like them more than PP.

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Old 03-22-2006, 12:07 PM   #8
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have 20 fire on all my penn's backed with mono, no problems.
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Old 03-22-2006, 01:59 PM   #9
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Personal preference I guess. 30 lb felt way to light to me and I found that wind nots went down considerably with 50 lb. Now I've switched to using only fireline and stren superbraid, like them more than PP.

i can concur with the increase in wind knot's using both the 30 and 40 lb pp with the slammer 560. i am trying the 50 lb pp this year on my spheros 8000.
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i can concur with the increase in wind knot's using both the 30 and 40 lb pp with the slammer 560. i am trying the 50 lb pp this year on my spheros 8000.

As long as you make sure the line does not cross the face of the spool, wind knots are a non-issue.

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Old 03-22-2006, 04:45 PM   #11
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it hates 30, 20 power pro. I'm not going with penn next, I need a reel that will cast the 30 and not knot

its no ones fault
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