spectra you use for spinners

[jureal]

Thanks guys. Western Filament and Power Pro are different companies. I heard that Western Filament makes the Izor spectra.

[ksong]

Originally Posted by jureal

Thanks guys. Western Filament and Power Pro are different companies. I heard that Western Filament makes the Izor spectra.

As far as I know Izor lines come from Taiwan and the company also makes Suffix lines. Western Filament based in the US makes several other brand braided lines.

[tracker12]

What color tuff line do you recommend? Any cons to the high viz yellow.

[hatidua]

....a little voice once told me all the brands that come out of Western Filaments. While they may be completely different, many brands of lines are made by just a few actual spectra manufacturers

[xs_tackle]

Originally Posted by Angler Systems

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I have samples of both in front of me and the braid is not the same. Power Pro has a thicker coating over the line compared to Tuff.

Ah, the infamous PowerPro "gunk." It was initially marketed as a "feature" which gave the line "extra body" (sort of hairspray for fishing line), presumably to reduce wind-knotting in sub-40# Spectra/Dyneema. In the over 50# sizes that has not been a problem in a long time if it ever was. The coating might also have made otherwise coarse line a little easier on the fingers, too.

As for TUF line and PPro coming from the same city, I understood that there are very few mills capable of spinning fishing line from the stuff--maybe only one in Grand Junction, CO-- and that they, like gasoline refiners, ran batches set up according their clients' specific directions and recipes (12-bundles, so many fibers to the bundle, 16 strand, so many fibers to the bundle, etc.) Brand X one day, Brand Y the next.

[rtran]

Alot of fisherman used power pro and will take it to the grave with them while I was on the Big E. I have now switched my line from YGK to Tuf Line XP on my casting reel because I had to many break off with YGK. I think the tiniest bit of fray on the line weakens the line by a significant amount. I still have YGK on my jigging reel but will switch out immediatly to OTI line if I experience anymore break offs.

Ref: YGK Jigman Jigman 60LB

[ALW]

I test my line befor fishing it. I take a couple of wood dowels wrap the line around each and pick up a stack of weights with the line. This way I am not testing knots and burns due to slipage. Power Pro dosn't measure up. Neither does some PE line. Jerry Brown line is good. I check monofilament leader as well. Most of that dosn't measure up. I find the Frinzy mono I bought from MC Saltwater Tackle does.

[rtran]

When jigging I broke off many times with YGK PE6 and 80lb leader at the rigs. The rigs often frayed up to 25 feet. I think rigs are meant to be fished with very heavy line and leader so fraying does not effect them much.

[hatidua]

My experience with yellow Tuf-XP has been fairly good. However.....I bought a LOT of 50# and 65# WHITE Tuf-XP last Summer and the stuff was truly awful. The thickest layer of wax on it of any I have ever seen, multiple irregularities in the line itself, 65# routinely broke at less than 20#s, etc. The wax was so thick a live sardine was unable to pull line off a Trinidad 40 in freespool and casting a lure with a Stella got about half the normal distance because the line was all stuck to itself.

I emailed my contact at Western Filaments about it and although getting a response was really easy when I was placing the order, things went mysteriously silent when I had problems. No response whatsoever.

No problem, I switched to Stren Super-Braid and have been exceedingly happy

The colored Tuf-Line might be fine, but steer well clear of the white "XP" variety...

[Uncle Russ]

I have a ton of YKG jigman (330 yards each of PE4, 5, 6, and 8), and am very impressed with the smoothness of the line. I'm betting (without knowing) that it is very similar to the OTI stuff.) That having been said, I have not tested it for breakage as I have the JB lines (with which I am very impressed.) So, for insurance, on each of my spinners, on which I have the 4, 5, an 6 lines, respectively, I also have a spool each of Jerry Brown line--or, in the case of the SR20, a spool of Varivas.

One line I recently bought for use on the Twinspin SR20 for popping, is the Varivas Super Max SMP GT line--in PE6, rated for 90 pound test. I have no idea how it will perform, but it's smoothness is like silk--Randy tells me it is one of the top casting lines in Asia. Again, I have not tested it, and it is expensive as hell, but I'm willing to try anything to cast a popper more than 50 feet.

Russ