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I agree..i never thought i would use it but its the best stuff ever..i also use the 30lb and a 3 ft section of 20 lb p-line for lures and for hangups..so much more action..when you move the rod the lure is moving...it literally feels like you can feel the stretch when you use mono again..feels like a rubber band

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Originally Posted by cmdrost (Post 22113)

I use 30 lb (8 lb mono equivalent) power pro with a mono leader. Love it! Stonger, more sensitive, less stretch. Can handle it all.

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Originally Posted by TROUTDEATH (Post 34757)

You can feel it if a fly sneezes on power pro

yeah i saw that big nasty. that catagory was a close one. a lot of black drum died that weekend. haha glad yall placed. nice meeting you. holla at me if u come back down

10-4 cuss... my cousin Erin won most of the prizes, i caught her 1st place red, 1st place flounder and her 1st place 44 lb big nasty !!

Once you get used to it, there is no other.

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Originally Posted by Gerald (Post 22163)

About a year ago, I bought some 30 lb Power pro to see what all the fuss was about.

I put it on my Curado. I tried it in the yard and it worked well....but fishing with it work be a better test.

Most of the time it cast as good or better than 12 # mono. But sometimes it would backlash but so does mono. Most of the time when you make a "bad" cast.....it will backlash....and it is your fault....not the line's fault.

But with the Power Pro.....it just seamed to backlash sometimes when mono would not backlash.

The short story......after the 3 rd fishing trip, I took the PP off and put mono Big Game 12# mono back on.

I have used braded line offshore......and it worked fine. But offshore, you are not casting long distances very much.

after about 20 or so casts, cast down wind and reel in with tension on the line to tighten it up. Braid doesn't pack down while working lures. It keeps those backlashes down from popping out of no where.

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Originally Posted by Jfranovich (Post 34691)

Bringing back an old post..... i bought that power-crap... tied it on... got my eel all tied on, rared back to cast and hummed that baby out there... done my retrieve... never felt a strike and brought in half an eel.... ya'll said this line is supposed to be sensitive?? I beg to differ...

I get the same thing sometimes. those little fish like piggy's tear up a plastic and you don't feel it.

another thing about braid, you have to wear off that wax coating it has before it works really good. I was told the yellow power pro doesn't have that coating so that is what I will try next once I wear out the line I have now. But that could be a while. :redface:

power pro....30 lb.....u choose ur leader depending on what like.
power pro is the best line out there.....PERIOD!

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Originally Posted by Gilbert (Post 35041)

What he's sayin is....use a big coffee can at first then move to a smaller can like a 16 oz size. That way when your feeshin all day with the homey's, you want get worn down and suffer from carpul tamale wrist. What mexycans get during tamale season!