Maodiver…
Yep, I can see it too…but, all the press on flouro was that whole ‘invisible’ in the water thing…we were supposed to be able to use a ‘stronger’ (thicker) tippet and still catch the same fish.
We have since discovered the it’s denser so it sinks faster, and that it doesn’t break down in ultraviolet light like mono, and that it can even be stronger for a given diameter than mono…
But, when it came out, I bought the ‘hype’ and switched to the ‘stronger’ flourocarbon tippet (typically I went up at least one, sometimes two sizes).
Funny thing happened…I had always been a ‘lighter is better’ and I payed a lot of attention to tippet diameter, trying to find the thinnest for a given test that I could…
The ‘flouro’ worked as advertised, though. I caught MORE fish using ‘thicker’ flourocarbon tippet, and not because I lost fewer due to the heavier line, I actually got more strikes.
I used to use 5x mono for almost all of my ‘regular’ still water trout fishing…6x if the water was really clear…now I’m using 8 pound flourocarbon fishing line, and taking more fish.
I was a 6x ‘nympher’ in rivers like the San Juan and the Animas…now I use 4 pound flourocarbon line, sometimes even 6 pound, which is lots thicker, and still catch more fish.
So, while I used to be ‘sure’ that I’d catch more fish with thinner mono, I was either wrong about that (could be, I’m wrong a lot), or the fish either can’t see the flourocarbon or for some reason don’t react to it like they do the same diameter mono.
In any case, I’m confident that I can use heavier test flourocarbon and still catch lots of fish. Confidence is a huge part of this addiction.
Buddy