Looks like the latest and greatest superline is getting decent reviews so far. Anyone here running a spool of this yet? Curious to how it compares to mono and braid in the hands of real people (ie. not sales people). Almost every line out there boasts great castability, surprising strength, and great knot tying ability. Just curious what of that is true about this new stuff.
I'm tempted to give it a shot, and knowing my dismal abilities to resist trying new things (the package is dangerously shiny), I'll probably pick up a spool of 8lb or 10lb.
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Berkley Nanofil
Started by Pinck, Aug 23 2011 04:23 PM
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Earthworm
Posted 23 August 2011 - 05:52 PM
I picked up a spool of 10# (150 yards) today from BPS. It's really expensive - $23. I'm gonna put some mono backing on before I spool it. Heading to Nipissing Sunday to give it a try. I will let you know how it works !
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Shiner Minnow
Posted 24 August 2011 - 09:30 AM
Great, they've got it on sale at Canadian Tire for $14.99, and LeBaron sells it for a nickel less than that as a regular price. My fishing buddy and I are probably going to pick some up later today. I'll post back with our verdicts.
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Shiner Minnow
Posted 08 September 2011 - 03:28 PM
I grabbed some of this a few weeks ago and LOVE it. I was having a weird problem of the braided line bunching up on me so I swapped for this and haven't looked back since.
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Shiner Minnow
Posted 09 September 2011 - 10:42 AM
I'm slow on my update, CT was out of it so I had to wait until I went to LeBaron. Just bought a pack yesterday but it's still in the packaging. I'll throw it around on the weekend and report back!
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Posted 12 September 2011 - 02:41 PM
So far, I'm finding that it's taking awhile to break it in. I was mostly pitching weightless wacky rigs though, so that probably didn't help much.
I was finding that the Nanofil was still keeping a lot of its coil once cast. So when I'd start to reel, if I didn't have much tension on the line, the line would go somewhat squirley on my spool, and cause a birdsnest later on if I didn't notice. It was doing it enough that I actually swapped spools back to my braid. I'll probably swap it back to the Nanofil soon and throw a bunch of jigs to see if I can't straighten it out a bit.
On the plus side, it does cast really nice, and it's more visible sitting on the water than my Suffix 832 which is great for my wacky rigging as I depend a lot on my eyes seeing the slack line jump.
I'll try to update again once I've played with it some more. I'm curious to see how it wears after heavy use, but I'm worried that if it doesn't start straightening out, it might not get that far.
I was finding that the Nanofil was still keeping a lot of its coil once cast. So when I'd start to reel, if I didn't have much tension on the line, the line would go somewhat squirley on my spool, and cause a birdsnest later on if I didn't notice. It was doing it enough that I actually swapped spools back to my braid. I'll probably swap it back to the Nanofil soon and throw a bunch of jigs to see if I can't straighten it out a bit.
On the plus side, it does cast really nice, and it's more visible sitting on the water than my Suffix 832 which is great for my wacky rigging as I depend a lot on my eyes seeing the slack line jump.
I'll try to update again once I've played with it some more. I'm curious to see how it wears after heavy use, but I'm worried that if it doesn't start straightening out, it might not get that far.
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Posted 29 September 2011 - 08:02 PM
So far, I'm finding that it's taking awhile to break it in. I was mostly pitching weightless wacky rigs though, so that probably didn't help much.
I was finding that the Nanofil was still keeping a lot of its coil once cast. So when I'd start to reel, if I didn't have much tension on the line, the line would go somewhat squirley on my spool, and cause a birdsnest later on if I didn't notice. It was doing it enough that I actually swapped spools back to my braid. I'll probably swap it back to the Nanofil soon and throw a bunch of jigs to see if I can't straighten it out a bit.
On the plus side, it does cast really nice, and it's more visible sitting on the water than my Suffix 832 which is great for my wacky rigging as I depend a lot on my eyes seeing the slack line jump.
I'll try to update again once I've played with it some more. I'm curious to see how it wears after heavy use, but I'm worried that if it doesn't start straightening out, it might not get that far.
I've checked it out at Bass Pro. I personally think its to Plastic like. it does seem to want to coil up. I would rather get the new Power Pro super slick
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