"steve" wrote in message
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Again you are forgetting about the line that you lose from a snag or
from a fish. If you loose it to a rock you could easily have 4 feet
of
line.

LOSE! The word is LOSE, fool.

If its mono it will break down and disintegrate. If its
polycarbin it will stay in tact for life.

INTACT is one word. And what the hell does "for life" mean? Whose
life? The life of the line? I should hope so. As a matter of fact I
strongly suspect that fluorocarbon* line (which, by the way, is by no
means necessarily distinct from "monofilament") enjoys the same
guarantee as most manufactured products today. That is to say, the
product is guaranteed for the life of the product. I will be happy to
furnish a translation in English for anyone who doesn't quite see the
implications.

Meanwhile, fluorocarbon line shares one other important feature with
every other manufactured product. In time, it WILL disintegrate, if
not to its constituent atoms, then at least to microscopically small
bits of inert gunk. It just takes a bit longer than some other
materials.

Wolfgang
then too, while fools may or may not take as long to disintegrate as
fluorocarbon line (depending on specific local conditions), they
certainly do a great deal more damage for the life of the product.

*There is a wide range of polymers that include chlorine and/or
fluorine. That a particular polymer or class of polymers currently
used in the making of fishing lines and containing one or both of
these elements goes by the name of "fluorocarbon" should not be
construed as suggesting that older and more familiar products lack
them.