CAST is absolutely right. ever since I started using the san diego jam knot, I have had zero breaks at the knot. After tying it a couple of times, you can tie without looking or thinking about it. That being said, I like fluoro, but good stuff can be pricey. I love yo-zuri fluoro hybrid. That stuff rocks!

Yeah, right. I didn't just fall off the turnip cart. If Mean Green performed as you described, it would have been run out of the marketplace a long time ago. I, along with many others, sure as heck wouldn't be using it. I'll buy that you got a bad spool, have a bad rod guide, or don't know how to tie a knot, but don't try to sell that the line is no good. That's just not true.

You should step-up to Invis-X by Seugar then tie the palomar knot. Just wet it and cinch it down slowly. The heat from the friction of cinching it down causes it to break so if you do it slowly and wet it alot and you will be fine.

I bought some Cabelas flouro and man that stuff has a lot of memory. Even when sprayed liberally with kvd i just cant seem to cast without a backlash and then have to untie loops afterwards. Going back to my big game. Texas lakes have no need for flouro.

I think that the "less initial stretch" concept that Tommy C mentions has some merit. The guys in Tackletour who did the testing said that some of the flouro stretched to the point where it wouldn't recover it's shape. This means that it changed in properties from the originally undeformed line. It may be that at some lower force were applied that it wouldn't stretch as much as a similar diameter mono with the same applied force.

Regarding the sensitivity issue. I've convinced myself that it's more sensitive. The way I did this was to alternate between floro and mono fishing the same stretch of rip rap with scattered rock in about 10 ft of water at the base. I could feel the scattered rock more easily with the flouro. 15# Big game, 15 #P line 100%, 15# Seagar Invis were used. Whether its the stretch or the higher density of the of the flouro that accounts for this I don't know. But, unfortunately, I'm convinced. Unfortunate because floro is more expensive.

I'm not saying that floro is better for all applications, just that it is, for me, more sensitive. I think it may have better spool life as well.