Help!! To many to chose from! What's best??

Everyone has their favourites they trust. For me it's Orvis Super Strong and Stroft.

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Stroft ABR , or Trabucco Diamond

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I guarentee you by the time this thread runs its course you'll be none the wiser. As said, everyone tends to favour a particular brand, so don't read too much into it. Try a few of the suggested ones and see what you're comfortable with, they're all much of a muchness.

Maxima clear mono for me. I don't use fluorocarbon for dries unless it is flat calm as it can drag the dries down.

Haha you are going to get so many answers to this one!!! I normally use Riverge GrandMax fluoro purely because it cuts through the surface tension nice and quickly so does not lay on the top for too long. It does pull the flies down eventually but i think that is a small price to pay for having no line on the surface and personally think it catches me more fish.

Dan

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Dave I hear Stroft squiggles a bit easily ? Pigs tails and all that ?

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I can't understand the love for Orvis 'Superstrong'. I think it is dreadful stuff and, when fishing with an angler and watching a fish take the fly off the tippet, I often correctly predict that this terrible product is being used. It tends to lose most of its strength when stressed, either by playing a previous fish or being caught on some bankside herbage. From then on its a libality and must have been responsible for more lost flies and fish on the take, than any other. If you must use it, and God knows why anyone should, use it with barbless hooks.

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I like Stroft GTM and I do use ABR. The only problem I've had with Stroft is with bushy or winged dries that are prone to spinning as it easily twists. Other than that, I get more rises and bolder takes when using GTM, I've even swapped mid-session as an experiment and takes do drop.

I use Stroft!! A-while back there was a post on the forum about the "Break offs with Stroft GTM and knots undoing or breaking" I was loosing fish after fish; and sometimes breaking off at the knot, especially when hooked in to a nice sized fish! I thought the post on here was correct about stroft GTM? I was wrong! I always used a blood/water knot, I've changed to a Davey Knot and the problem has disappeared! Stroft is very thin and sits nicely on the water, I don't get any of those little twists (pigtails) in my tippet! I use 3LB, mostly and have landed several fish close to 3LB, on it! Maxima and Rio Powerflex are also excellent mono's - I also like Drennan for making up my own leaders for stream fishing, or I use one of Mr, Trouts, furled leaders and Stroft for the tippet.

As was said in the beginning of this thread; you'll have more recommendations than you can of! Go try a few, you'll soon find one your happy with.

Some materials look much stronger on paper than others. A few months ago Buzz on this forum gave me some Stroft to try. I normally use Hardy copolymer as I have bever had a problem with it and have never lost a fish though a breaking tippet.

I took the stroft - nominally much stronger on a B.S for diameter and did a test comparing it to the Hardy. The result was that knotted stroft consistently broke at below it's stated breaking strain and the knotted Hardy consistently broke at above it's breaking strain, resulting in very little difference indeed.

The only explanation I can think of (without accusing anyone of telling porkers) lis that Hardy rate their breaking strain conservatively by stating wet and knotted breaking strain and stroft rate theirs as dry unknotted breaking strain.