Fishing lines are getting better.

[Enid91]

Well, I tried something like that 2 years ago!
And frankly speaking, that wasn't such a great experiment.
I don't want to do that anymore...

[Nosebleed]

I used 80lb berkley vanish floro leaders on my last 2 trips and lost fish even though I was inspecting them often. They seemed fine until they got sliced. That's just to much to take when you've had a bad week of fishing and a big girl swipes the only lure that might work and runs off with it.

I will be going wire from now on. got a roll of Tyger 49strand to make some leaders out of.

Also I am sold on Diawa samurai braid. I use 55 and 70 lb test and it is BY FAR the quitest braid out there. And it's never broken on me. I tried them all and could not stand the loud grind of most braids (powerpro, spiderwire, suffix performance braid) especially the higher test's. So just putting that out there. If you want to try a caddilac braid Samurai is the best.

[wallymn99]

65# is too LIGHT.. use 80# as a minimum. The diameter is that much different. i have seen 65# snap on a backlash. Go with a 130# of 150# flouro leader or a single strand wire leader and you will be set. Anything less you take more risk.