Weird line breakage

[Jim Elam]

Bobby, for grins look carefully at your guides and make sure that all inserts are present and smooth.  Same thing happened to me a few years ago and realized that an insert had come out and the guide frame was cutting my line when the angle and pressure were just right.  

[Champ188]

11 hours ago, dtrs5kprs said:

I've fished the 8# and 10# Big Game. Thought the diameter and feel was about like Maxima or BPS, little stiff and a little over diameter. Didn't like the memory on a spinning reel.

The 10# Big Game is a pretty fair little brown jig line on a baitcaster.

Used to try saving $ on line, so I could spend more on rods and reels. Have gone almost exactly opposite of that since. Line and hooks are the only real connection we get with the fish. 

I don't know where you guys are finding Big Game in anything below 10#. I've never seen it in smaller sizes and even Berkley's website doesn't list anything smaller. You sure you aren't talking about XT or XL?

[Ham]

I've used a lot of Big Game off and on, but I always felt like the higher test really coiled up in cooler weather. Maybe it had just been on the reel too long. 

Big Game is a another built in shock absorber. I always felt like the 15 lb was closer to 20 lb line and the 20 was closer to 25 lb. lots of stretch. Great stuff of square bills and spinnerbaits. I can see using it flipping and pitching especially if you aren't worried about feeling the strike like dead hands Dave.

[kjackson]

I've used Vanish once and had a couple of long-distance releases on lures...dumped the stuff immediately after. I expected that Berkley would either fix it or drop the line.  That didn't happen, although Pure Fishing was strong on doing running changes. As for Berkley's fluoro--the Professional Grade Fluorocarbon--I've used quite a bit of it and like it.  It was my go-to fluorocarbon until Pure Fishing/Newell stopped doing vertical marketing.  

I was on a trip this past fall and was given some of the Seaguar mono in 12-pound. It seemed to be fairly good stuff and thinner in diameter than other "comparable" monos...so I spooled up a 2500-size spinning reel (it was the only empty reel I had) and fished the mono. It was great: nice and limp, no coil, good casting distance.  The diameter looked to be smaller than 10-pound XL.  I've not fished it enough to come to a firm conclusion, but it certainly looks good from here.

As for the "vertical marketing" remark above-- Newell will run Pure Fishing with none. I think I mentioned in another post that the is only one person left in a 31-person marketing department, and he'll be gone in June.  What I expect is no advertising, no pro endorsements and not a lot, if any, development of new products.  The brands that don't perform will be sold ( heard that Berkley, Penn, Abu and Shakespeare will be kept), and products that don't make their numbers will disappear.  The latest indication is Brandon Palaniuk being sponsored by Zoom.  I'm sure we'll see other pros changing their jerseys in the very near future.  

[dtrs5kprs]

2 hours ago, Champ188 said:

I don't know where you guys are finding Big Game in anything below 10#. I've never seen it in smaller sizes and even Berkley's website doesn't list anything smaller. You sure you aren't talking about XT or XL?

They used to make an 8#. That was the smallest I've found. Some of the Wally Marts had it, and Rogers in Liberty had it. It's been years. As in 10+ years. Might still have a spool.

I would say it ran about two diameters off. But they call it Big Game, not Super Limp.

Big Game is a fantastic big rod, big line thread. That's about where it stops. It's cheap, it's easy to find, and for ripping fish out of bushes it's great. 

[dtrs5kprs]

TW still lists it. I'll see if I have a spool for the diameter info.

http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Berkley_Trilene_Big_Game_Line_Green/descpage-BTBG.html

[dtrs5kprs]

1 hour ago, Ham said:

I've used a lot of Big Game off and on, but I always felt like the higher test really coiled up in cooler weather. Maybe it had just been on the reel too long. 

Big Game is a another built in shock absorber. I always felt like the 15 lb was closer to 20 lb line and the 20 was closer to 25 lb. lots of stretch. Great stuff of square bills and spinnerbaits. I can see using it flipping and pitching especially if you aren't worried about feeling the strike like dead hands Dave.

We flipped it for years in little lakes filled with wood, and lakes like Truman, Smithville, Twain. Was just a staple for everyone in the late 80s, 90s.

I obviously don't power fish much anymore, but still run big game on all my blades, some topwater, some flip, summer small lake stuff. Big Game is also on at least one extra reel in my boat at all times. It may not be perfect, but it will let you fish if something blows up.

[dtrs5kprs]

But it ain't for spinning reels.

[Engr5]

Bought some Trilene Big Game last week.  The labels state:

8 lb test -diameter is .011 inches avg.

10 lb test -  diameter is .012

15 lb test -diameter is .015

[dtrs5kprs]

49 minutes ago, Engr5 said:

Bought some Trilene Big Game last week.  The labels state:

8 lb test -diameter is .011 inches avg.

10 lb test -  diameter is .012

15 lb test -diameter is .015

Exactly. Those 8-10 diameters are more like 12# line. Beefy.