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Old April 14th, 2004, 03:08 PM
Jeff Durham
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Default Superlines snapping

Do you know if your line is breaking at the knot or someplace else? You
should definitely be using a palomar knot for these types of lines. I have
seen at least with Fireline and PowerPro that if the line gets knicked, it
can break. That is one reason I prefer PowerPro over Fireline in that
Fireline gets so frayed looking that it is hard to tell if it is knicked.
PowerPro seems to take much longer to look that way even though they are
essentially the same material. I have not had experience yet with Stren,
but plan to try it out sometime this year.

Jeff


"RichG" wrote in message
om...
I thought my search for the "vonderline" was over. I put some Stren on and
it performed very well. ....Until yesterday when the specter of ALL prior
superlines came back.

I usually cast a long way with a very strong "snap" of my wrist. It is
necessary here on the TX Gulf coast and beside, I like it! Yesterday, I
SNAPPED a spinnerbait right off of the line.

Over the years, I've lost more lures during casting with ANY superline

then
I ever lost with any mono. I know that mono gives me some stretch, so my

big
SNAP cast (when I get a backlash) doesn't always break off.

Am I the only guy with this complaint about Superlines? I'm using 30 lb

with
8 lb diameter. I usually use ten pound mono???
Thanks ,

RichG
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