Braid..............What's Good.... What's Knot

Backlash · Post by **Backlash** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 8:59 pm

Lots of brands out there......................+'s or -'s

Your thoughts

Lash

max · Post by **max** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 9:30 pm

fireline mate ducks nuts

Andy Grey · Post by **Andy Grey** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:24 pm

Fireline is good, others I havent really tried, seen mates come out fishing with new spools of spider wire and other stuff only to be re-spooling with Fireline back at the camp later that night !!

Blinky · Post by **Blinky** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:42 pm

Millenium Hot Fibre 2 best going round IMHO.

Rod Harrison's brand a very close second, although pricey!

Seem to have trouble with Platypus (20 lb) breaking at knots.

The old Gorilla braid was great..........until it became unavailable!

In the smaller sizes 2 & 4 kg, Talon is good value.

I'm a huge fan of braid

, the only time I use mono is for leaders and that's knotted dogs exclusively.

Tiwi Storm · Post by **Tiwi Storm** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:50 am

another vote for fireline

landlocked · Post by **landlocked** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:58 am

and another fan of fire line. 20lb for lure fishing and 50lb for reef.
only use mono for live baiting creeks and rivers.

BarraBeast · Post by **BarraBeast** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 10:07 am

tried most brands. settled on berkley whip lash as first choice and Finns PRT braid 2nd.

pagey · Post by **pagey** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:29 pm

agree 100% with BarraBeast whiplash and finns are my top two choices

maxan · Post by **maxan** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:48 pm

Yeah blinky, gorilla braid was brilliant,great knots,smooth finish and strong as! wonder what replaced it,once pulled the anchor of boat that got too close on 50 and got the jewie

use fireline mainly.

Travis · Post by **Travis** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 3:09 am

Currently have Finns and Millenium Hot Fibre 2 spooled on my two baitcasters, both in 30lb. Have always used Fireline in the past and still have it on my TLD20, but I now rate either of these other lines above it, especially straight out of the packet when I've found that Fireline is too stiff and needs to be used half a dozen times before is becomes more managable. Still in saying that I would still happily go back to using it as opposed to others that I've tried and it still remains to be seen whether or not I'll get the same sort of life out of the Millenium or Finns as I did out of Fireline.

Cheers,
Travis

Kevin Kevinson · Post by **Kevin Kevinson** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:10 am

fins 30lb all day for me...

redcan · Post by **redcan** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 7:31 pm

I now use Ande braid, and it works for me.

Tried using Rapala Titanium braid 40lb on Friday and it continually failed.

Sconik · Post by **Sconik** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 7:59 pm

Yep . . . . another fan of Fins PRT, 20lb. Great vis in the yellow but does fade fairly quickly. I guess that's pretty much the norm for any high vis braid though.

Fireline is fantastic in the lighter line classes too. I'm a huge fan of 4 and 6lb fireline for ultra light spinning outfits. Especially for soft plastics. Pity they can't work out a means of preventing it from going 'hairy' after prolonged use.

Scotty

Jay Burgess · Post by **Jay Burgess** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 1:19 pm

Fireline is OK but doesn't really compare with Fins PRT... use 30lb myself, can't fault it

BEAR · Post by **BEAR** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 1:34 pm

I have also tried most and stick with berkley whiplash now top stuff

BEAR