I was in a local baitshop today picking up some crickets and saw spools of "Braided Nylon Baitcasting Line" - the old stuff that was popular before mono took off.  I had no idea this stuff was even made anymore.  I used to use it on my old Ted Williams rod/reel when I was a kid (1970's).  

I checked out a spool and the line looks about as thin as equivalent-test mono.  It's super limp and doesn't feel stretchy, at least not to the same extent mono does.  It's black.  I started to feel a bit nostaligic but didn't buy any.  

Does anyone use this stuff anymore?   Now that I think about it, maybe it was a bit ahead of it's time?   I've kind of got an urge to try some on one of my baitcast rigs.  

 Yea they still make it. The few times I've seen it was in small out of the way bait shops off the beaten path. I bought my first baitcaster with money I saved from my paper route. Can't remember the brand but it was real inexpensive. At the time I didn't know anyone who used reels. It had the line you are talking about on it. I don't know how I learned to use  the reel, with it being as cheap as it was and the charastics of that line. If you're feeling nostalgic about, I don't know if we're talking about the same line or not. The resistance when casting was really bad, there was no picking out a "professional overrun" and it sank when it got wet. The only good thing I remember about it was it would last forever. There are probably yoyos and drop lines still around that the yoyos and hooks have rusted away but that line is still there.

 Didn't mean to rain on your parade, just personal opinion ...

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No parade here.  I know it's obsolete stuff.  But if it's still sold, it must have a niche.  I just don't know what it is.   Backing, maybe?

I used to have it on a cheap Ted Williams (Sears) baitcast reel and a cheaper yellow/orange fiberglass baitcast rod with a metal reel seat (no thru-handle blanks back then).   I can't remember how it performed, but do remember, as you do, that it lasted forever.  I never changed my line, just went season to season with the same stuff.