I use braid with a floro leader, the best of both worlds.

...or the worst.

TFP

Awesome! Looks like my lunch break will be at Academy today. Thanks for all the info! All great posts. I am a very detailed oriented person and a perfectionist when it comes to my fishing and hunting gear. I'm not happy until everything works perfectly. It took me 8 months to put my current bow together the way I wanted it. So no telling how long it would have taken me to choose a better fishing line. Kidding. Thanks again!

That's right. Go slow,get your rig perfected,and maximize your performace with what you've already got, before you get new stuff. Less is more.

You make a pretty good point.

Were you in the front of the boat and he was fishing in the back?

Thanks again for the help on this! Just finished putting Seaguar fluoro on my 5000. I look forward to trying it out. Last question. Will the heat in my garage ruin/warp that new line? Like I said before, this is my first run with fluorocarbon.

Sometimes I feel that when fishing knarly cover I can get more bites with smaller, lighter lures like a finesse worm with a 1/16 oz wt. I can throw these with a spinning rod with 20 or 30 lb test braid while I couldn't begin to use 20 lb mono or floro for this with any setup.

I'm liking the fact that some are mentioning the Tackle Tour stretch test as being flawed in that some of the floros were being stretched to permanent deformation and that they may compare differently with other lines when smaller, more realistic forces are applied.

Well,then,put the same braid on your baitcaster and try again.

Lunky,yes heat will affect yor flouro.I would advise keeping it in your house untilyou can get out on the water.a downside to flouro is it doesn't have as long of a spool life as mono or braid.get some kvd line&lure conditioner and it will help with the memory and longevity of the line.hope this helps.

Mike

So who makes the best flouro in the 10-14lb test range? least memory and tangle.

Seaguar.they make 12 and 15lb test.but as far as line memory. Bar none the best out there.

Bottom line is if they were all tested with the same amount of force then the ones that stretch the most are still the ones that have the most stretch regardless.

Maybe it is more complicated than this, but typically what happens is that an elastic material stretches twice as much when twice the force is applied and this continues in linear fashion as more force is applied until it reaches an elastic limit. At this point it permanantly deforms. During this permanant deformation the stretch is more than before for a given incremant of force. what I am inferring from this is that a floro that permananty deformed during the tackle tour test might stretch more than a mono during this test, but less than that same mono if smaller force were applied. In the oversimplified view that line sensitivity depends on stretch only, the floro would then be the more sensitive because you are never going to reach the tackle tour forces when retrieving a lure. I believe the tackle tour forces were about 4 lb. Try deadlifting that with a fishing rod.