» Topic: Flourocarbon Tippet Material

This topic has 10 replies, 9 voices, and was last updated Jan 1, 2009 at 11:20 am by Mike McKeown.

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Dec 30, 2008 at 1:06 am #3728

david king
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Should you replace this stuff every season? I need to fish more so this question wouldn’t be necessary!

Dec 30, 2008 at 12:21 pm #32221

Rob Snowhite
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short answer: no
long caffienated answer:

there is a sign at cape may nj with a list of things that fisherman use and their time to biodegrade.

mono was in the hudreds to thousands of years. that includes exposure to elements and uv light

i think replacing tippet be it flouro or mono is more of a sales pitch (companies that place experation dates on their spools)
as long as it is not exposed to the elements i’d say you should be fine

if you are going for some igfa record and are paranoid enough that you might loose the fish of a lifetime due to brittle or decomposed flouro then go for it.

annecdote: we threw a spool of mono off my parents deck in the 80s and it got caught up in the branches. when the leaves drop you can see the same spool dangling by the same piece of mono

Dec 30, 2008 at 1:18 pm #32222

clark reid
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My experience is that mono most definately breaks down and becomes much weaker over time.

I’ve had no such issues with fluorocarbon.

You can judge a man by the size of things which annoy him.

Dec 30, 2008 at 1:36 pm #32223

Andrew Wright
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Fluorocarbon definitely has a longer shelf life than mono. Mono tends to break down with exposure to sunlight and water, whereas Flouro tends to be more resistant to these things. My personal preference is to hang on to the fluorocarbon leftover from previous seasons and ditch the mono. I would guess though that even the mono would be fine for another season or two as long as it was stored properly. One way to be sure is to just test it before use.

Dec 30, 2008 at 2:39 pm #32224

T. Wiles
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My experience with 6x fluoro (Rio and Umpqua):

If it gets hot (in the car) or repeatedly dunked and not dried thereafter (with the spool elastics off)

it’s toast!

If i’m after finicky big trout, I always test the knot strength before I go to the water.

Dec 30, 2008 at 3:45 pm #32225

Randy Kadish
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More and more tournament bass fishermen are going to flouro. They must know something.

I started using flouro for dry fly fishing.

I fish a real clear stream and find it’s easier using flouro 5x than mono 7x.

Randy

Dec 30, 2008 at 4:42 pm #32226

regan c. kenyon jr.
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berkley makes some good fluoro

Dec 31, 2008 at 7:00 am #32227

Mike McKeown
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Fluorocarbon, no… half life of 100 000 years, not affected by UV light and other stuff…

Mono, yes… half life of a couple of hundred years and is badly affected by UV and other light, sunlight being the worst…

Bit of useless info, beer is also badly affected by UV and florescent light… you make up your mind on when, where and how to drink it…

Dec 31, 2008 at 10:44 am #32228

Morsie
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Mike I want to see the 100,000 year old fc that proves this.

Don’t mention the cricket…..
😕

Morsie

Dec 31, 2008 at 2:22 pm #32229

regan c. kenyon jr.
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That’s why beer comes in colored glass.

Jan 1, 2009 at 11:20 am #32230

Mike McKeown
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Mike I want to see the 100,000 year old fc that proves this.

Don’t mention the cricket…..
😕

Morsie

Don’t know if it’s fact, probably not, but it sounds good, I think it is like 10 000 years, even if its not, I know it is hell of a long…

Cricket, you guys play cricket??? I know we were playing cricket, you guys, netball, I think… Got up every day at 3.30AM to watch… absolutely brilliant… But the best is the humility in victory… can’t say that there are many other teams that have shown that kind of attitude when winning such an achievement… your team has a few problems though, and theres that number you guys fear, 87…

Sorry Guys, back to topic…
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