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I brought in two recently, $7 each shipped from China. I bought them only for practice casting, and wanted bright orange so I could watch the line carefully, and as I practice in the street more often than not I don't want to worry about trashing a good line.
At first I thought they were textured. There were very rough feeling. I put a magnifying glass to them and concluded the coating was left unfinished without any slick finish coating.
They cast almost as well as a good line, distance is fine which surprised me with the lack of slick coating, it's a little harder to carry an extended line for some reason. Put them to the pool test and they float fairly well, not sure how long that would last. Mine did come with factory loops, not that we'd trust them.
I suppose if I wanted to fish for bass a couple of times a year and didn't want to spend money on a good bass line I'd use one oversized, cut the front taper back almost to the head, and it would be fine.
One caveat--if you buy an unboxed/no spool line from someone representing it as new and branded, and it feels rough, you probably got had. It's already happened to me once. I didn't realize what it was until I brought these lines in and the feel was identical. Like most small goods shipped direct from China without U.S. enhancements, they are commodities, use the same manufacturing machinery, and one is as good or bad as the other so it's all price driven.
Have you tried them, and if so, would you use them for fishing?
At first I thought they were textured. There were very rough feeling. I put a magnifying glass to them and concluded the coating was left unfinished without any slick finish coating.
They cast almost as well as a good line, distance is fine which surprised me with the lack of slick coating, it's a little harder to carry an extended line for some reason. Put them to the pool test and they float fairly well, not sure how long that would last. Mine did come with factory loops, not that we'd trust them.
I suppose if I wanted to fish for bass a couple of times a year and didn't want to spend money on a good bass line I'd use one oversized, cut the front taper back almost to the head, and it would be fine.
One caveat--if you buy an unboxed/no spool line from someone representing it as new and branded, and it feels rough, you probably got had. It's already happened to me once. I didn't realize what it was until I brought these lines in and the feel was identical. Like most small goods shipped direct from China without U.S. enhancements, they are commodities, use the same manufacturing machinery, and one is as good or bad as the other so it's all price driven.
Have you tried them, and if so, would you use them for fishing?