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Cheaper Fluorocarbon

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Just now, centexbassboy said:

What is a cheapier brand of florocarbon? I need some florocarbon but not wanting to spend 25-30$ on florocarbon.

Seaguar Red Label

While I like and use sunline sniper, a cheaper flouro that Darren has mentioned red label is ok.

Red label for leaders is what I use. I also bought some Kastking Fluoro off amazon and it's actually decent stuff. Prefer sniper, myself, however

I like Vicious for a cheap fluoro it has never let me down. 

I would also say Red Label, when I first started fishing flouro I picked up some Red Label at Wally World to test it out, I mean it is no Tatsu or even Sniper but it does a really good job for its price.

Another vote for red label, however that is solely based on my experience as a leader. All of my setups have braid for the main line. 

I have a reel spooled with Seaguar invisX 12lb for crankbaits. The stuff is excellent. Its not too pricey either

Sunline super flouro is decent also. I switched from sniper to super because its hard to find sniper here. I like it but havent used it a whole lot

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Seaguar Red Label is the best value fluoro I've tried, and I've tried a lot of them. 

Surprised no one has mentioned Vicious.

Red label or stren fluorocast

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I wouldn't skimp here.  Use a time tested copolymer or coated line like CXX or YZ Hybrid, if you don't want to spend a lot on line. These lines are less than $10 a filler spool. 

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Red label.

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Red Label for leader, InvizX for spinning tackle and AbrazX for baitcasters.

 

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1 hour ago, roadwarrior said:

Red Label Seaguar Leader for leader, InvizX for spinning tackle and AbrazX for baitcasters.

Fixed that!  Don't use reel fill for leader, unless you're in a pinch.  Real leader material is much stronger, more resistant to abrasion, and more forgiving with connection knots. 

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i wouldn't skimp either, it will leave a bad taste as far as fluoro goes.  Also, use some cheap mono backing and only use 60-75 yards of the fluoro and you'll be able to make it last much longer and even spool more than 1 reel with it...

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I use a little more, like 100 yards (two reels per 200 yd filler spool) only because I cannot stand feeling the connection knot.

It gets no love here, but I've had a pretty good experience using Gander Mountain brand fluorocarbon.  It's thicker than Seaguar or Sunline but handles pretty well for me with KVD L&L, I'm using 10# on a baitcaster right now.  I can't compare to Red Label because I've never used that as a mainline, but it's about the same price.  $25/400 yard spool.

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Actually, I'm pretty sure that it's the same as the BPS private label "XPS Fluoro" which was decent stuff before Invisx and Tatsu were widely available.

2 hours ago, Steveo-1969 said:

It gets no love here, but I've had a pretty good experience using Gander Mountain brand fluorocarbon.  It's thicker than Seaguar or Sunline but handles pretty well for me with KVD L&L, I'm using 10# on a baitcaster right now.  I can't compare to Red Label because I've never used that as a mainline, but it's about the same price.  $25/400 yard spool.

It's made by sunline and pretty sure it's sunline super fluoro.

Seaguar here I like the Abrazx, I use it for everything, I'm sure there is better, but I know there is worse, the Abrazx for me is a good all round Fluoro that holds knot good and does a good job on abrasion resistance.

Red Label for cheap, AbrazX for middle of the road.

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Red label was fine as a leader for me. As a main line I didn't care for it much. Trilene 100% was good to me and isn't super expensive. The bps brand treated me good too. I have settled on sniper for my fc needs over the past few years. 

I have been using the yo-Zuri soft for the past couple months and may forget about fluoro for awhile.  Stronger and handles much better.  The 10# feels as strong as any 15# fluoro imo.  

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