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Message started by PhantomJug on May 1st, 2014 at 10:07pm

Title: Re: Line! Line! Line! Line! Line! Line!
Post by zski on Jun 27th, 2014 at 2:51pm
OK Somewhere along the way i listed Tuf-Line as one that i liked.
Taking it all back now. Line ended up being one of the very last items before a trip this year. typically i've got line well covered,  spools set etc. but not so this year (car probs right up to departure). grabbed some tuf-line the night before and and ran. Well, looking at the line there were visible consistency problems (the braid and color looked different at times). On top of that, toward the end of the spool the color really changed and looked washed out. Where there should have been an end of the spool, there was more "line" underneath with 3 of those white pieces of tape holding it down. Not sure what the stuff underneath was. Whereas the line i purchased was green this was smoke-ish in color. Quality control completely missed it on this one.
My son ended up having to use but was cautious with it. In the field we did a break strength comparison with some year old suffix 832 (both rated 20#) and this questionable tuf-line. the new tuf-line seemed to break at about half the pressure or less than the older suffix. fortunately he didn't lose any fish due to line break but his drag was set pretty light.  Line!Line!Line!Line!Line!Line!

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