Thanks ST. I repacked a spool on your advice because it had indeed bound on itself (too loose when I first spooled it on). Moistening and carefully (slowly) cinching down the knots has really helped. Also, the tip of carefully setting the drag on my reels has helped greatly to reduce break-offs and my lure loss ratio has dropped considersably! MS55 --- I'm not sure I'm ready to graduate up to FC but someday :) Good advice though and thanks for the tips!