Here's another new product (to me) I'll be trying this coming year. I don't use traditional monofilament for a whole lot anymore, having switched most setups over to fluorcarbon or braid. For less expensive all-around fluoro line I tend to use Seaguar InvisX, and for some of my jigging and finesse setups, I've been using Toray. Toray is actually ridiculously expensive, with their Super Hard line coming in at roughly $37 for 164 yds., and their Super Finesse at $35 for only 109 yds. Thing is, it's great line, and I can go an entire season on a single spool. Fluorocarbon can be a bit finicky, and we've all probably got a horror story or two to tell, but it's been been pretty darn limited with the use of the higher quality line for me.
Along that line (sorry about that pun), I've had several people, whose opinion I respect highly, recommend Tatsu fluorocarbon by Seaguar. Most anglers shy away from it because of its $44 price tag per spool. However, a spool is 200 yds., so it's cost per yd. works out to about $0.22. Compare that to Toray's SH ($0.225/yd) and SF ($0.32/yd), and you see it is right on par, or less. When Tackle Warehouse put it on sale over the Holiday for $26-$33 per 200 yd. spool (about $0.15/yd), it turned out to be enough of a deal that I picked up 3 spools of it.
Really looking forward to giving it a fair test this year out on the water. Many proclaim it the best fluorocarbon they've ever used. Considering that the only connection between you and that bass on the other end of your cast is a skinny piece of extruded polymer, why would you shy away from superior line costing just a few pennies more per yard? Save on the rod, save on the reel, perhaps even the lure/bait, but be careful going sheap with the line. I guess we'll see.
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