considering the amount of people that have one of these lines i am very surprised no one has put a review of stewarts lines up , but hey i may aswell be the firstanyone who wants can shoot me down at the end if they think im not being honest

firstly can i state i am speaking only about the line i have which is a wf4# (ivory), when i got this line from stewart i spooled it on very tight and it was sat on the spool for around a month before i used it to see if it would coil , i took it to a stillwater where the weather was cold and wet with a decent wind blowing more gusty than anything , i put the line out on the water and at first it had some very light spiralling rather than coiling and after 5/6 more casts this had been ironed out whereby after that the line laid out straight as a die , casting wise it loaded the rod well with approx 4 meters of line out ,flotability wise they ride high on the water and the only place any floatant was applied was to the braided connector, the only time this line showed any resemblance of going under was when i caught the weed with my buzzers, against the gusts a 4# was obviously to light to give any advice as to it cutting through the wind but overall i was extremely pleased with its performance, the actual line itself has a very smooth ,very supple coating and i could find no manufacturing deformities throughout its whole length being of a constant thickness throughout , its in an ivory colour although it would be nice to have it in a dark green for bugging, rivers etc where concealment counts more so IMO than on stillwaters, whether it actually makes a difference is hard to say as to line colour... which co-incidentally brings me to the next two outings with it on rivers (both on the wharfe) ,both outings with it have been in the present freezing conditions this was going to be the test for me for the line the first outing was a bitterly cold day which failed to rise above freezing with an awkward wind aswell this is when i would of expected it to coil if it was going to at all, as above the only floatant was on the connector ,now if anything was going to make the top couple of feet dip under water it was going to be the fluctuating currents,cross flows etc it was going to have to cope with this line never once dipped under the surface apart from when my bugs caught the deck again the line rode high on the water and was very easy to mend ,as for the wind i could quite easily put it out across the wharfe without it bothering it to much apart from the odd really strong gust,the second outing was only last sunday 3/1/2010 where the temp on starting fishing was minus 2.5 and i dont honestly think it got above freezing for maybe an hour when the sun got above the trees, and stayed like it all day until the end when the rod rings were freezing over with ice , again no coiling superb performance from the line again remaining supple throughout the whole day from start to finish in sub zero temps...

as to the colour making a difference i am still under doubt ,the reason being two days before hand i fished exactly the same swims in exactly the same way with a wulff tt5#wf in dark green ,i actually caught more on the ivory line on both trips with it
if i was going to compare it to a line, performance and or quality wise wise it would be to the line mentioned the wulff tt,it cast the same and performed the same ,remaining supple throughout the whole time and never took a dive,or gave resemblance to a coil anywhere at anytime..

if you want a line for both still and running water i can highly recommend this line , whether its ivory or not

for such a cheap line it puts some rather more expensive ones in the bin, it is certainly as good as the two xs's i have for quality and performance,no fancy packaging just a excellent line in a plastic bag


as Arney said .....i'll be back.....................for another one stewart


PS: can i just state i have no connection to stewart and only know of him because of the forum with his lines, but i do not mind telling folk of a quality product at a cheap price which is a rare commodity these days

thanks for reading ,and i hope you find what i found out about them