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Thread: What brand fluorocarbon?
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05-28-2018, 02:41 PM #1
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What brand fluorocarbon?
I'm looking into filling my speckled trout reels with fluorocarbon line. What brand do you fluorocarbon experts recommend?
Last edited by TUCK; 05-28-2018 at 04:31 PM. Reason: Added "speckled" to clarify kind of trout.
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05-28-2018, 03:32 PM #2
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I have ordered off Amazon for couple years https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_s...ng+flurocarbon have been real happy.
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05-28-2018, 04:03 PM #3
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I've never fished for trout with fluoro. I've always used mono, as long as I've stayed with a thin diameter (usually 4 lb, but occasionally 6) line I've never had issues with line shyness. I grew up a mile from a heavily pressured trout stream in Michigan, and I still managed to catch my share, both the wild brookies and the easier stocked browns and bows. Fished them in oregon a few years ago and several times here in the oklahoma stocked ponds/lakes and rivers. All mono. If you don't mind my asking, why do you want fluoro?
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05-28-2018, 04:29 PM #4
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Sorry, I should have specified that I am fishing for speckled trout at the GSSP. I have been using 6 # clear mono. Just want to put the odds in my favor every way I can. Those trout will drive you crazy just sitting there with a live shrimp on their nose and not eating it!
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05-28-2018, 04:40 PM #5
.....No expert,but can't go wrong with seaguar.....I would think just a stretch of top shot would be enough....might want to dropdown to 4#
Bill..............
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05-28-2018, 05:28 PM #6
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lol. sorry, when I hear trout I automatically think of the other variety. Especially since one of our forum members is currently in Pennsylvania and has been posting pics for the past several days.
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05-29-2018, 04:23 AM #7
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I'm the forementioned guy ^^^
Just getting up to hit the creek now
G'morning Tuck, how're things in Crenshaw county?
I just use a long FC leader and do pretty good the times I target them lil'speckled bastards.
And I use the Seaguar brand in 10#.Ragnar Benson:
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Die if you must, but die on your home turf with your face to the wind, not in some stinking hellhole 2,000 kilometers away, among people you neither know nor care about.
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05-29-2018, 06:12 AM #8
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I spent alot of time and money trying fleorocarbon and braid lines, learning new knots, etc. All my bass buddies convinced me that I needed to. I just didn’t like it at all and I hated the line memory. So I’m back to mono and using Seaquar fleoro leaders, so I second that suggestion.
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05-29-2018, 07:48 AM #9
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If you feel you really need flourocarbon, use regular mono with a flourocarbon leader.
As others noted, I just dont see the need to spend the money to fill a reel all the way with the stuff.Carl
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05-29-2018, 08:04 AM #10
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Tuck, I've tried the red seaguar a couple of times on spinning tackle, thinking the lower stretch of Floro would help me on feeling bites and hookups. Instead, I found that even the best Floro creates challenges on spinning tackle due to line memory. I treated the line with Kevin Van Dam's line conditioner and it didn't help much. That was just my experience, so no claim to being knowledgeable, and I don't fish for speckled trout....or at least, haven't yet. I went to yozuri hybrid in the green color in 4lb test for crappie in fresh water and spanish in the pre-sharkageddon days at GS. It's mono with a floro coating, and up to 15 lbs is the toughest stuff I've found. It does have some memory issues at 15lb, but the Van Dam line treatment helps a lot IMO. No problems at all at 4lb test. Clear is good, too.
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