Fluorocarbon tippet sources

[jgrossing]

My conclusion from the posts above is that none of us know much about the "overlap" of brands of fluorocarbon tippet. That doesn't surprise me, really, as i would guess that this would be a closely guarded secret for the retailers. Based on the lack of demonstrable differences among the first generation fluorocarbon tippets, I will resort to bargain hunting, using the cheapest that I can find until I learn that this strategy is flawed.

Thanks to those who responded.

[freshwaterpirate]

i've tried a few, seaguar, orvis, airflo included... and currently am using YGK which comes in a "doughnut" packaging... its in 100m spools and is about $20 for the #2.5 which works out to be about 8lbs. if i'm fishing flies that i want to sink, i'll use fluro, otherwise its mono =)

[Uncle Jesse]

My conclusion from the posts above is that none of us know much about the "overlap" of brands of fluorocarbon tippet. That doesn't surprise me, really, as i would guess that this would be a closely guarded secret for the retailers. Based on the lack of demonstrable differences among the first generation fluorocarbon tippets, I will resort to bargain hunting, using the cheapest that I can find until I learn that this strategy is flawed.

Thanks to those who responded.

I spent over 18 years inspecting factories for fire insurance and saw a wide array of articles made. Very often various brands came out of the same building with only different colors and labors being the only difference. I never had an opportunity to see fishing line manufactured the closet was string for weed trimmers, and the same held true there. So it would not surprise me at all that there would be only a handful of manufacturers of fishing line. I know Trilene and Stren are now owned by the same company, Pure Fishing, a division of Jardin, headquarter in Spirit Lake, Iowa.

[vmabuck]

As long as it works for you then I say go for it...!

[anglerdave]

I've used Orvis Mirage and have been happy with it and have some Rio that seems to work just fine as well.

I experimented with using fluro spinning line (Berkly Vanish to be exact) as leaders when bluegill and smallmouth fishing and was not happy with that at all. I found it to be much stiffer than the Orvis or Rio and tended to fail especially when throwing clousers and heavier weighted flys when smallmouth fishing.

[Mato Kuwapi]

90% of the time I usually use Berkley Vanish. I buy it in the big spools. When I need finer than a 4lb tippet I use Orvis Mirage. I only use it for nymphing so rarely need to go down to the fly fishing branded "tippet" material. I'm not to anal about my nymphing leaders.