It is like fishing with a rubber band to me.

All lines feel like that...unless your fishing with braid.

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Not flouro and if I'm using mono I went over to Triple Fish and P Line XXX and they feel great.

Trilene XL is great for the money.  I would think it is the standard for mono.  A good analogy would be that it is the jimmy beam of line.  Inexpensive, yet good, not awesome, not bad either.

Original Stren is the line I usually use because it seems to have the best balance of castability, strength, and abrasion resistance in one line.

XL does cast well but I don't think it has much less memory than Original Stren. Just seems to break down in UV light quickly and gets broke by fish easily, even though I'm not always fishing cover. I never used it around heavy cover.