I used nothing but braid for 15 years. For the last 8-9 years I have used Berkley 100% fluoro for most applications. I don't know what is going on with you, but I can barely break 15 or 17 lb Berkley when I try. I have broken off maybe three fish in the last three or four years, and I don't blame the line for any of them. I am terrible about not retying.

Usually when I have line breaks 1 to 1.5 ft above the lure knot it is due to a damaged tip guide.

If I have any fluoro left I'm going to use it as backing for my braid.

You ight be wrong on the tip, this happened on 4 rods and the eyes couldnot be bad on all of them, while using Mccoys has NO PROBLEMS. If it is THAT sensitive of a line, then I do not want to sue it anyway. If you think all 4 rods a damaged ONLYT on this line, then you might want to check your line to make sure it is not SUPER line or something else. Tight lines, keep safe and good luck. THAT was the first thing I checked for.

Thad Rains

I have never had an issue with Invizx fluorocarbon line.....ever.

I think a lot of the fluorocarbon controversy dates back to when fluorocarbon first hit the scene . There was some really bad stuff that was being marketed. Berkely Vanish for one and Stren had one, don't recall the name. A guy on this forum posted he had bought some and had several break offs first time out on the water. I saw it was cheap and purchased some anyway. Boy, was he ever right. Sorry about the lack of details, but this was about 18 yrs ago.

I was at El Salto back in February. I fished 4 days using only fluoro. I did not have a single break off fighting a fish for 2 days. We were catching 50-60 per day. I was insane how easy it was to catch those fish down there. Where I made a mistake was not respooling after day 2. I had nothing to go on as far as experience. What happened was due to the stress of catching that many the line was cutting itself on the spool. On day 3 I began breaking off on hook set in the spool. At the lunch break I respooled and all was good again. I think fluoro is a good line that has its place but you have to understand it and take precaution. I was using Invisx by the way. I think too many get caught up in thinking fluoro is better than mono or braid but that is just not the case. It’s just another option that may or may not perform better than the others in certain situations.

one thing is for certain, it is always going to be spelled different ways.

now that is funny

Yep

I was recently fishing Fork and forgot my seguar so I had to use some clear 20 lb eagle claw mono that I use for catfish or striper for a leader and was pleasantly surprised , 40 lb power pro and tic tic and landed a nice 5lb large-mouth and drove the hook completely through the upper lip with a heavy action mega bass rod.

Clear line does make a difference in warm clear water.

Siri always spells it Floral Carbon....