I've a couple of rods that are close to 20 years old, one is a Loomis IM6 & the other a Cabela's fish Eagle graphite, I've always used mono, either Trilene/MagnaThin or Stren, I've thought about trying out some of the "low stretgh" but I don't really have a good idea of whats out there, or how its used, back when some of this new line came out, I heard there where problems with it cutting into line guides and some companies advised against using it, also you had to use some kind of glue for tying the knots if these are still issues, I'm O.K. doing what I've been doing, but I would'nt mine giving some of the new stuff a try, hate to ruin a rod experimenting with stuff I don't know much about, anyone have any thoughts or ideas/suggestions on the subject I would appreciate hearing "em"
Wasn't terrible at a state park beach. Antelope island maybe. I wouldn't recommend it as a beach destination tho. Figured I was there, I'm getting in it.
The water looked and smelled disgusting with hundreds of thousands of birds sh*tting in there. About as gross as the Salton Sea. When I duck hunted there I didn't even want to touch the water.
It's kinda gross with the algae in the summer but I got in it anyway. Wanted to see the increased bouyancy at work. You can kinda tuck yourself into a ball and you'll just float with your head above water. When dry off you look diamond encrusted with the salt.
We went to the flats too. I dipped a tire on the rental car onto it just to say I’ve been there,but it was still pretty soft from winter melt. After seeing some moron in a BMW suv get dragged out of the muck I had no intention of repeating his stupidity.
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I've a couple of rods that are close to 20 years old, one is a Loomis IM6 & the other a Cabela's fish Eagle graphite, I've always used mono, either Trilene/MagnaThin or Stren,
I've thought about trying out some of the "low stretgh" but I don't really have a good idea of whats out there, or how its used, back when some of this new line came out, I heard there where problems with it cutting into line guides and some companies advised against using it, also you had
to use some kind of glue for tying the knots
if these are still issues, I'm O.K. doing what I've been doing, but I would'nt mine giving some of the new stuff a try, hate to ruin a rod experimenting with stuff I don't know much about, anyone have any thoughts or ideas/suggestions on the subject I would appreciate hearing "em"
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