What's The Worst Fishing Line You Ever Used?
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Finished Business
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Everyone likes the Berkly "Big Game" Trilene in the chuck...but IMO, worst line to use in fresh water. Lost a dozen consecutive fish due to the stretchiness of that line and its inability to get a good hook set. Spooled it that morning, spooled it off that night. It's poop.
trendsetter
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Red Wolf from Canadian Tire. Absolute garbage. A friend spooled his reel up with the 20lb back in 2010 and quickly lost 3 full sockeye gear setups before taking it off.
http://www.canadiantire.ca/AST/brow...Value+Monofilament+Fishing+Line.jsp?locale=en
http://www.canadiantire.ca/AST/brow...Value+Monofilament+Fishing+Line.jsp?locale=en
Aces
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Forget what's best-the worst trips make the best stories and we all love to hate a lousy product.
#1-this crap is still around lurking in the dark corners of garages-tremendously lousy.
Used this exactly once-couldn't imagine a worse product for use in cold water.
Ha Ha!! I have a 50 pounder on my wall caught in Active Pass on 15lb Charterboat line
Whole in the Water
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Put me down for Charter Boat as the worst. Amazing that they still make it!
RageWelding
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LOL my old man still has 15 year old charter line 60lb test mono on his 5" Petes knuckle duster. He wont take it off or retire the reel. lmao
ReelAffair
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BERKLEY pro spec
tulameentrapper
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I have some of that charter boat stuff in my boat. I give it my buddies to use if they start out fishing me. Ends that problem pretty quick.
Derby
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Pippen
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I think in Critter Cove 2 summers back with IFL.....a few of us used some really bad lines on the cute gal who was working there that summer. There were a couple of pops involved and I think the "lines" were flying randomly and pretty darn bad.
I know standing next to IFL I was puffing out my chest.....sucking in my gut and flexing my calves in order to get her attention, I wanted to show her that Dave wasn't the only "gun show" in Nootka at that time.
I know standing next to IFL I was puffing out my chest.....sucking in my gut and flexing my calves in order to get her attention, I wanted to show her that Dave wasn't the only "gun show" in Nootka at that time.
Dave H
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I've caught a couple hundred steelhead using Charterboat line on a big spinning outfit. It was cheap line to buy and I used to spool up with it then spend a few minutes in my room in the bunkhouse pulling off the first 100' or so in three foot increments and stretching it so it would "limp" up a bit. I mostly bottom bounced spin-n-glos or drifted spoons and spinner back then (Gold River) and I'm talking in the late 60's early '70's.
As you snagged and broke off then the line on the reel would become stretched too as it came into use.
Cheap line and not great line for sure but it still worked fine for me.
Take care.
As you snagged and broke off then the line on the reel would become stretched too as it came into use.
Cheap line and not great line for sure but it still worked fine for me.
Take care.
spring fever
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I was unlucky-or lucky depends how you look at it-bought a spool of charterhouse and it wasn't one piece-had started to spool the reel and never finished. It never went on the reel-lucky after hearing the tales!! I,m sure I must have used it for leader-my scots blood would have precluded any other outcome!! LOL
