First time trying flourocarbon

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Originally Posted by dester223

And I'm very disappointed in its strength.

Bought some 6# seaguar red label (i probably spelled that wrong)

Loomis 5'4" mag light rod 25 series pfleuger reel.

Double jigs and the line snapped so easily
Never had this issue with 6# mono or the super thin braid. First fish i hit with the line got the crappie to top water and was reeling it in. Snap. Not a monster but id guestimate a 10 to 11"er. Thought fluke retried and ended up losing 3 or 4 more fish and jigs.

I almost want to give up on flouro already but my inlaw says maybe i got a bad spool.

Any opinions?

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Hang in there. Its all about the knot. Still learning myself...

Doh. I forgot this threas got moved. I wanted a line that would sink faster and flouro 6# is thr equivalent diameter of 4# mono.

Anywho. I went out last week and tried flouro again but as luck would have it. I didnt get into many fish to see if changing to a uni knot helped or not.

I almost feel like some of the 4# mono i used is stronger than the 6# flouro red label i got. Just trying different things to see what i like. Reading up on it mono stretches so it can take a hookset better than braid and flouro and some say you need to adjust how hard you set the hook to not break off. Just in my case the hook was set... fish got to top water and snap.

I love the sink factor. I think the uni will work for you.
I only go thru the eye once and 4 turns thru. I am not sure what the best uni is for our application (6lb test).