Ben Mueller

This was Kastking's "Kastking Super Pro" I believe. Basically the company only has one type of braid they sell. they also have a huge line of reels, both spinning and baitcasting, that I have purchased a couple of. Upon further inspection and disassembly I found them to be the exact Chinese ( poor quality cheaply made Chinese ones that is) reels that can be found on Alibaba and DHgate that have been basically rebranded with the Kastking name. No one like to see a fellow angler get stuck with inferior products that are mis marketed to deceive. This is also why I think it's a good idea to pay for some things with PayPal. Sometimes their buyer protection guarantee is a good thing.

105 yards of Kastking 30lb braid and 330 yards of 30 lb Daiwa Jbraid. I can recall there being some discussions about Kastking braid here and there so I wanted to get to the bottom of all of the questions for myself. I went ahead and purchased 500 and something yards of 30lb metered braid from them. When I was pulling this off I did notice how loosely woven it was even for a four strand line. The packaging did say that the diameter of the line was .25 mm just shy of .001 of an inch. I spooled A shield 6000 size reel and to my surprise that large spool that I believe was rated to take 400 yards truck just 105 yards of the Kastking before it was full. This is not a small spool. This is also the same sport that I had previously put on 330 yards of Daiwa Jbraid (adv thickness .27mm, .02mm more than the adv kastking) and had extra room. Out of curiosity and my disappointment I measure the diameter of this line and it came out to be almost twice the thickness as advertised (.45mm instead of the .25 claimed). Needless to say I gave them bad feedback and a bad review which upon they sent me iMessage stating that they would refund two dollars if I were to keep this line. Seeing as I'd rather have my $20 back rather than a spool of crappy line I returned it anyway. Upon receiving it they offered for free if I were to remove that bad feedback, a spool of 10 pound braid green braid. After receiving the braid once again I measured it and it came up to more than twice the diameter of what they were advertising (.009 inches vs .0039). I was mostly curious about this line because of the price and social media advertising they've been doing. But I'm afraid I was simply left rather frustrated with false claims. This is usually what happens when a company tries to simply rebrand completely inferior Chinese knock off products rather than too choose to have a quality product that's made in China. There's a huge difference between the two.