mikench
Well-known member
Alan I’m sure you will like it.
. Alan, I’d rather you not take my word for it, that way I can’t be blamed if you don’t like it ?. It works fine for me, 6lb straight through didn’t put shy dace off Yesterday.To be honest,I know it is sound line,so for barbel fishing that is fine,float fishing,especially trotting,i'd need persuading,despite what Ian says,lol....
Yep! found this in my hooklength material I wrote about so I binned that and bought new line.I found some lines will just keep stretching until they break at way below their rated BS
Are you in favor of the stuff or where you the author of "I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole". I literally sat here laughing after reading that.If you get chance i'd be more than interested in your findings with daiwa sensor....6lb would be good .
Yep! found this in my hooklength material I wrote about so I binned that and bought new line.
Are you in favor of the stuff or where you the author of "I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole". I literally sat here laughing after reading that.
I never have seen Daiwa sensor and even think it's not in the shops here. I just found it online and noticed it's realy, realy cheap. I did consider buying a spool for a moment because it is so cheap but there's a number of reasons I won't. The most important is the fact that the specs are not stellar. The Super G line (which performs as promised and is of correct diameter) has a BS roughly double of that of Sensor. I use 20/00 main line for ledgering most of the time. I would need 31/00 to approach the BS of the Gline and 33/00 to just surpass it.
To be honest: for quite some purposes I use Maxima, which specs just a hair better than sensor so I'm not against cheap lines. Tests show that it's over its specd diameter in such a way that I correct this on the spools. BS is on spec, as far as I remember.
Regarding maxima....i've done numerous pull tests with 8lb maxima tied direct to 6lb sensor and the maxima always snapped first. The break was never at the knot, it was always a few inches above the knot.
Tnx, that's good info. I'll have to try it for myself now. Once Angling direct or another vendor with decent shipping rates stocks 20/00 I'll order a spool.
OK, ordered a spool of 4lbs @ 20/00. That's what I'll use for ledgering because I'm used to Maxima 20/00 for this. Strength is not the primary spec I'm looking for, just some abbrasion resistance and decent pricing. About £ 10 is the best shipping I could get so totals up to £ 20.
I don't see it here, which is strange. When I fished for carp (that must be 30 yrs ago) we had bulk spools of Maxima in the shops. That's when I started using it. I don't see these nowadays.
20/00 is sufficient in terms of BS and abbrasion resistance because I use hooklengths up to 16/00 on rivers, but often lighter (I don't fish commercials). For hooklengths I use Super G-line most of the time. Have some stuff which is older and not even sold anymore like See adler which I realy like for the color and feel. Cheap stuff as wel.
I'll report back here once I get the spool and find some time to test it. Ebay tells me they'll deliver on the 2nd of october and I have a match on the 3rd, so it might be field test before lab test ....
PS: found it in one Dutch web shop for € 23 + shipping afterwards.. a bit steep I'd say