What is the difference bewteen fluorocarbon leader and

dogonenuts · Post by **dogonenuts** » June 7th, 2007, 5:56 pm

fluorocarbon line besides the price?

Thanks,

Nuts

Post by **birddog** » June 7th, 2007, 7:38 pm

The leader material is stiffer. That's the only difference I've noticed.

I buy the spool of line, instead of the leader material. You save a good bit of money.

Post by **Jumptrout51** » June 7th, 2007, 8:58 pm

What BD said.

p.s. he finally said something relevant.

Post by **birddog** » June 7th, 2007, 10:57 pm

Shouldn't you be practicing up on catching snotcats.

Post by **Cranfield** » June 8th, 2007, 5:08 am

I use fluorocarbon line a lot, mainly for its superior toughness and abrasion resistance, it doesn't "nick" near the hook/lure after you have caught a few fish, which mono tends to do.
It also is less visible in water than mono, doesn't UV degrade as quickly and is low stretch.

In an active days fishing I would change a mono leader anything between 5 and 10 times, I don't usually change a fluoro leader for a few trips.

I also have it straight through on a couple of my reels.

Post by **jsuber** » June 8th, 2007, 7:10 am

What he said and the difference between Flourocarbon line and flourocarbon leader is abrasion resistance.

Post by **Capt Reggie** » June 8th, 2007, 7:19 am

Cranfield wrote:I use fluorocarbon line a lot, mainly for its superior toughness and abrasion resistance, it doesn't "nick" near the hook/lure after you have caught a few fish, which mono tends to do.
It also is less visible in water than mono, doesn't UV degrade as quickly and is low stretch.

In an active days fishing I would change a mono leader anything between 5 and 10 times, I don't usually change a fluoro leader for a few trips.

I also have it straight through on a couple of my reels.

I would like to add that it produces better knot strength, especially when tying on shock leaders. I've found that it is excellent to use when forming various knots - like the Clinch, Trilene, Palomar, Surgeon's, etc. I can get away with the smaller diameter shock leader (#20 & #30) too, which spooks less fish!!!