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Interesting. The bulk of the breaks I had was fishing in a pond with 1-1.5lbers on medium spinning gear. No real hard hook sets. I honestly think it was quality issues on the line. I tried the Maxima Ultragreen out yesterday and had no issues so far after about 8-10 fish. I’m going to test it further and see. If I have any other issues, I’ll just go back to mono. There’s not enough stretch on a mono leader for it to be an issue for me. I hardly ever power fish.

Ok will do. I’ve seen reports of that happening with fluoro. Yep, that’s been exactly my experience so far

It’s all good, I’m not offended. I appreciate the help. I was simply saying it could be me lol, but I’ve not had any issues like this with mono so I really don’t know. I have broken mono but it’s always been my fault like not checking the line when I know it’s been through some bad cover with a fish. I know fluoro can be finicky but didn’t think copoly would be like this. The SDJ knot is one I haven’t tried yet but plan to. I’m going to test the maxima in my pond when it gets here and I’ll try the uni, palomar, and sdj. Good point on the wraps and I’ve noticed that with thicker or thinner line. I wanna say with the 8lb CXX I used 5 wraps max as any more made it hard to cinch. Oddly enough, I’ve never had my braid to copoly connection break. I’ve use mostly the Alberto knot but also the fg some too.

Yozuri Hybrid will be what I try if this Maxima doesn’t work out. Then if that doesn’t work I guess I’ll stay with Berkley Trilene or Stren

Can you recommend some good ones? I’ve got some maxima ultragreen coming

I did that with the 25 year old Stren except I wrapped it around two wooden dowels. Surprisingly it’s still good

I tried different knots…uni and palomar. The Izorline was breaking in the line way up from the knot randomly. CXX broke once in the line and the others at the knots. I’m not saying they’re both bad spools. I’ve talked to a local guide that says he’s had the same issues with both brands too. So idk. Again I never had this issues with mono Well it’s definitely not the guides. I take care of my gear for one, then two, this happened on 3 different brand new rods. Yeah I’ve fished Berkley Trilene Big Game for years now on the same spool. No issues. Also have a 25 year old spool of Stren that’s always been stored inside. No issues with that. Seems like if I couldn’t/didn’t know how to tie a knot, I’d have issues in the past as well.

Not sure what’s hard to understand on this. I fished the CXX on day one a hard/shell bottom and had issues. Lots of nicks in the line that I think caused it to break in only a short time of drop shotting where the line isn’t laying on the bottom. It broke above the hook too. Then I tested it in my pond with a muck bottom and had multiple break offs. Two different days, two different places. As for Izorline, again not sure what’s hard to understand here. I said I had random breakages. Meaning not on the knots, just “randomly” on the line. It did this at home just pulling the line to cinch knots down. I never got a chance to test its abrasion resistance and the only reason I mentioned abrasion is because from what I’ve read, the CXX is a stiffer line and more abrasion resistant, but that’s not what I experienced. Either way, abrasion shouldn’t be a problem drop shotting on a hard bottom but yet I still had breakages. The tackle warehouse reviews are irrelevant. Maybe I got a bad spool of Izorline, but it doesn’t take reviews to tell me that random breakages in line, from simply cinching a knot, is going to make for a bad day fishing. I don’t want to be second guessing if the line is going to randomly break on me. I also said initially that maybe it’s me but I’ve never had a problem with mono in the many years I’ve been fishing. I wet my line before cinching and I make sure to do it slowly to prevent burn. Maybe I’m missing something though Maybe I got a bad spool, idk, but the spool I had was terrible. It broke randomly just pulling the line to cinch knots down. 10lb test.

I believe it about the CXX. I got it from Walmart so I just took it back lol. There’s nothing in the pond to abrade the line. It’s just a muck bottom. The Izorline was similar but much worse than the CXX. I’m trying one last line before going back to mono or trying fluoro. I just bought some Maxima Ultragreen so I’ll test that and see.

In the pond it did. At the lake drop shotting, it broke above the hook. I think it had a slight nick in the line. The CXX didn’t seem to take abrasion well at all compared to the Trilene Big Game I had been using I’ll look at the FC again. Seems like I read lots of issues with quality control in the last year or so. I’m also looking for something universal in use for when I’m not using a drop shot like with my Texas rigs or weightless fluke/senkos.

I’m having some issues with copolymer breaking. Using it as a leader to braid on spinning setups. I tried 10lb Izorline Platinum and it was breaking randomly. So I bought some 8lb P-line CXX. It’s supposedly better with abrasion from what I read. After a few hours of fishing a drop shot, I hooked some grass and broke off. I chalked it up to shells and the hard bottom I was fishing. Today I tried again in my pond and broke off 3 more times. No cover in the pond either so I know it’s not from abrasion. Once with with a palomar knot and the other two with uni knots. I won’t say it’s not me and how I’m tying my knots, but I’ve not had an issue with mono. I cinch my knots slowly and wet the line. Anyone have any suggestions?

How do you like the Yo Zuri? Idk what was up with the Izorline but it wasn’t good at all. Maybe Tackle Warehouse had the spool sitting around too long or maybe it was quality control on that spool. I just know I broke off two drop shots and a worm. I tried a palomar knot and a uni knot but it wasn’t always breaking at the knot.

Are you referring to fluoro or mono on the big game being abrasion resistant? Because I’m currently using big game mono not fluoro

I was fishing some sort of hard bottom catching bass. Maybe shells idk, but after a few bass with a drop shot, it was bad frayed and cloudy right above the hook.

I’ve been using Trilene Big Game 10lb mono for leader line to braid for my spinning setups. It works ok but I’m wanting something a little more abrasion resistant. A guide I know has been using Izorline XXX and liked it so I tried some. Not sure if I got a bad spool or what but I kept getting random line snaps. Even just tying knots. So now I’m looking at fluorocarbon and it seems like quality consistency is all over the place from reviews, even on higher end lines. Lines I’m currently considering: Gamma Edge or Touch, p-line tactical fluoro, seaguar invisx or abrazx, sunline fc sniper, sunline shooter, daiwa j-fluoro Samurai, suffix advance. Also considering trying another copolymer like p-line cxx in 6-8lb all or these have good reviews and plenty of bad ones too. Am I just overthinking this?