It's your rod tip eyelet. Probably has a chip in it. Run a qtip through it to see if it catches

I'd rather use Spiderwire or Vicious fluorocarbon than Berkley Vanish. Seaguar or Sunline is the way to go.

Check the tip of the rod or the weights you are using. The line is fine most likely.

Line doesn�t break around the area of the tip when you cast for no reason.

Stop being cheap and get sunline or Tatsu

This ......

You know for everyone of you guys that says the Berkley Vanish is trash ,,,,,, there is someone that thinks it is good. I have been fishing the Berkley Vanish Transoptic for the past 3 years and have not had any issues whatsoever. Great feel, no break-offs and cast extremely good.
The cost of the line has nothing to do with whether or not it is what I use .......

....just use what YOU like......
breakoffs have to do with frays and nicks plus poor knots.....
even the best line will get nicked up --- check it often
Maybe the biggest culprit is age and sunlight/heat. Line will weaken due to heat

Berkley Vanish has a bad reputation. Other brands listed about are good but I use Berkley 100% flouro with good results on 8 and 10 pound line.
You have to keep checking your line and retying whenever you feel rough spots. Thats with any line when the line gets damaged.

Haven't had issues with unusual break offs; but, I think I'm going to start storing my fishing line in the house instead of in the garage.

I meant the Zebra Mussels are the problem, I've never used vanish, but he mentioned Seaguar, and Seaguar isn't the problem.

For those saying it is his rod tip, do you reel your line in to the eyelet that often? He said it is fraying and breaking 4-6" from the lure, I almost never reel my bait in that close to the tip. The closest my bait might get to my rod tip is 12" so my rod tip would never rub the 4-6" area above my lure.

This seems like a Vanish problem, I used Tatsu or Invisix until recently and loved them (tatsu for dragging because the line is rubbing against everything, Invisx for moving baits). I did use P-Line 100% flouro for years as well and had no issues with it, cant even really say now why I switched to Seaguar but it must have been on sale at some point and no I have 6 bulk spools of different weights.

I actually have a spool of P-Line 100% Flouro 17# on my desk that should have a reels worth on it, PM me your address and I will send it to you to try out.

Hey, I appreciate it Shallow Waters.

I do not think it is the rod tip. Just put a brand new one on last Saturday.

The line would feel fine after re-tying. However, after on a handful of cast, it would be really rough and frayed 4-6" above the know.

Now, I was chunking a 14' diver in 8' of water with rocks, some brush and zebra muscles...so may that was it.

But this is the only rod with Vanish on it and the only one causing problems so I am going to say it is that.

Going to try some Seaguar Abasix or whatever it is.

I had a pro fisherman buddy that told me this morning that he runs nothing but Mono on divers. Anyone else?

I run Flouro on divers because of the extra depth (however minimal) and the slightly less stretch because I use a real soft tipped rod for divers. I dont think I currently have mono on any reels for any application. I used to try to keep one for top waters but I just switched that braid anyways because it can be used for more applications and I dont fish top water that often anyways.

Buy some 12lb big game and try that. It's good line for the price

There are some remaining zebra mussels in Bridgeport and you will get in an area occasionally that has a few. You just gotta deal with it. They are not as widespread as they were. Personally I think they helped the fishing on the lake.

I was talking with Keith the other day and he said there was a big shad/zebra mussel kill a week or so ago.