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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 Nanda on Jul 13th, 2016 at 2:39am

solotripper wrote on Jul 11th, 2016 at 5:03pm:

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maybe by year 3 it's performing at around 10#.


I'm on the 4th year with my #15 Power Pro Red and I still have NEVER lost a fish from the line breaking as long as I cut it back when I saw abrasion.
It's not even RED anymore, more like "rust" colored.  ;) ;D

Unlike Mono, braid doesn’t absorb water AND exposure to sunlight doesn’t hurt it like mono.

You see a lot of people leave their rod/reels spooled with mono just stored in exposed fishing racks in boats or another sun exposed area. Then they wonder why after a season two the line breaks off when they have the “big’ one on.

Here’s a very informative article about fishing lines.

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Good article. I bookmarked it for a good reference on lines.

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