In article , Jarmo Hurri
wrote:

An excellent point, Chas, and this could very well be the key to
explaining this difference between silk and plastic lines.

This *is* the reason. At least, for the fact that they float for
different reasons.

Silk lines aren't better than plastic ones. In fact, really, they're
worse, just as bamboo is really worse than carbon. I use both cane
rods and silk lines, but I'm not trying to make my fishing as
technologically efficient as possible. I think it's crazy when people
justify their use of outmoded technology by arguing that it's more
efficient. It isn't. But it may be nicer.

Lazarus

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