4-12-15 Table Rock Report Equipment Matters To Me.

[5bites]

Trophy unless you don't like flourocarbon you might check out Sunline if diameters are important to you.

[Bill Babler]

5 bite you are right, but we are talking about Mono on spinning reels, and sunline makes I believe a jungle green mono, that is very good. It is way less money than the Maxima. I have used it but come back to the Maxi. The sunline has quite a bit more memory and is very similar to FC, at times wanting to either jump off your spinning reel, or it is very easy to get a loop if you do not remember EVERY time to shut the bail with your hand and not to engage or shut the bail with the reel handle.

Believe you me, I have seen messes you would not believe. Being a bit stiffer and more memory than the Maxima, I lose a lot of casting distance with the sunline mono.

For me and I really like the sunline, it is just not as good when you are dealing with folks that don't fish on an everyday basis. And, you are right, it would work for Trophy.

[rps]

Sunline and Maxima are quality lines. Both package and sell line at close to its actual break strength. 6 pound test is going to test between 6 and 7 pounds. This is common to many of the Japanese made lines as well. Yozuri is packaged and sold in the same style as Trilene, Stren, and many others. The actual strength will exceed the labeled strength by several (2 to 4) pounds. This explains much of the diameter differences. Do not get me wrong, I think Maxima is first rate line. So does Tackle Tour. Their benchmark when they compare lines is Maxima.

[Ham]

Or you could just spool up with Nanofil 6 lb and forget about it.

[5bites]

5 bite you are right, but we are talking about Mono on spinning reels, and sunline makes I believe a jungle green mono, that is very good. It is way less money than the Maxima. I have used it but come back to the Maxi. The sunline has quite a bit more memory and is very similar to FC, at times wanting to either jump off your spinning reel, or it is very easy to get a loop if you do not remember EVERY time to shut the bail with your hand and not to engage or shut the bail with the reel handle.

Believe you me, I have seen messes you would not believe. Being a bit stiffer and more memory than the Maxima, I lose a lot of casting distance with the sunline mono.

For me and I really like the sunline, it is just not as good when you are dealing with folks that don't fish on an everyday basis. And, you are right, it would work for Trophy.

Oh yea I totally agree. He brought up diameter a few times so I thought I'd mention it.

I use flourocarbon almost exclusively which I'm sure is a mistake. If it doesn't need to float its a pretty safe bet it's flourocarbon for me lol. I just like the hardness and lower stretch of a quality flouro. I'm still experimenting with braid with a flouro leader on my shaky head and drop shot combo. I started this last year.

I'm playing with the Sunline structure on my pitching outfits. It supposedly has less stretch than shooter and for whatever reason is cheaper slightly though still not cheap. So far it's very tough stuff and I like it. This is after three days of Grand Lake fishing. 20lb is .014" diameter.

All the talk about Maxima has me wanting to try it. I like cheap especially if it's tough. I just put some mono on my crappie outfits for the same reasons you use mono. Easy casting and user friendly. I don't want to jack with line disasters when I'm going for dinner. Especially throwing those little jigs in the wind. I can see how dealing with all the different experience levels would have a guy lean toward the side of caution.

Have you experimented with using mono and flouro back to back to compare bites? I'll admit that's part of a confidence thing with me but it has more to do with abrasion resistance, lower stretch, and sensitivity. Especially since I like as little line out as I can help but over as much junk as it can be.

[Bill Babler]

Or you could just spool up with Nanofil 6 lb and forget about it.

You do that and you are in a world of breakage. I tried to be the Nanofil guy with you Ham, but it just kept breaking on me. I lost over $100.00 in spinbaits on it, trying to make it work. It just would not. 12# Nanofil will break much easier than 6 pound Maxima. It breaks on the cast or on the snap, no stretch and no forgiveness. You make one mistake, any type of casting mistake and it is broken. In my business we make lots of mistakes.

[Bill Babler]

5, I have yet to find any type of a FC that I can fish with clients on spinning tackle. Just to much memory for folks that do not get to fish a lot to cope with. I need a line that spools with no memory and is forgiving as a politicians wife. Have not found a Carbon line that is that.

The search continues, but the Maxima although as expensive as Carbon is as Randy put it the bench mark for all others. Just cannot even find a decent competitor.

[willyfish]

"Forgiving as a politicians wife" do you mind if I use that one, that's pretty good

[Ham]

Bill, I did snap one spybait on Nano, but it was leader and not the nanofil. Luckily it landed in about 2 foot of water (along a bluff line!) and I got the bait back. Lol.

I just have not had the breakage issues. I use 6, 8 and 10 lb. I've never bought the 12 lb.

Of course, keep on, keeping on. Whatever you are using is obviously working for your peeps.

[dtrs5kprs]

That 5# maxima is a tough find, except for small spools at TW.