Just out of curiousity, how many of you can tell a difference in using flourocarbon vs. mono?? I suppose there are some scientific stuff behind the flouro but for my $$$ I can't tell much difference. After a few Budweisers I put some in the hot tub along with some same diameter mono, I couldn't tell the difference, my girl couldn't either (she had the same amount of Buds as me) Maybe the fish can though. I've heard of the abrasion resistance qualities but I don't see where that matters unless rocks are an issue. I will say that knot tying in flouro is better.

I changed to all floro two years ago and to be honest with you I think I we get about the same number of strikes as we did the mono. I way I looked at it -with the price of fuel and all of the prepartion and hard work required to do the offshore fishing really well, I hated to leave anything to chance, so I used the latest technology. All of my spreader bars are still rigged with mono and tunas strike them all the time, so I don't think it is really a problem. One thing I do like about the fluoro, is the stiffness. It very rarly tangles and is very easy to handle when we have ten leaders scattered all over the cockpit. I pretty much crimp everything except very light white marlin rigs so the knot thing is of no concern to me.

I use Mono, because Im cheap. Im like you if I knew any better i might think of changing it.

Eric

man that hot tub bit is good stuff . me and the crew are still laughing
the plumber
scooter

You might be able to see the difference if you drank a better beer.

I only use Flourocarbon on the wind-ons WWB for tuna during the summer out of Hatteras. 25'-30' of 80 or 90 lb test.

On the troll, I think mono offers little difference. HOWEVER, if you are chunking, floro will out fish mono most of the time...

I have changed everything over to flouro. Some days the fish will eat anything put in but other days they just will not bite. That is when I would start putting flouro in and I would get bites. Some days it does not matter but other days it does. The flouro being a lot tougher is another plus that I like. Thats just my 2 cents.

If rigging for Dr Wright, it's all fluro,baby! And I do like the abrasion resistance. But if rigging for myself, I use Cajun red line for leader. Red is the first color that disapates underwater . Another favorite color is the green in my wallet if I don't use flurocarbon. By the way, old heads from the seventies swore by 15 lb test mono for spanish macherel, because of their keen eyesight and they like clear water. I use 40 lb test Cajun and catch the dickens out of spanish. (I also use 20' leaders,with a super small swivel halfway in line for twist control. Using that much fluro would be PROHIBITIVE,even for millionaire doctors.)