Incognito
Incognito

Kryston Incognito Fluorocarbon

RRP: £ 6.99 – £ 7.99

Specification/Description

  • Fluorocarbon mono
  • Available in 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15 and 18lb bs
  • 50m per spool

website: www.kryston.com/


Manufacturer’s Overview

With our track record it’s only natural to offer the best fluorocarbon that money can buy.

Incognito, the super fluoro, is a new abrasion resistant hooklength produced from premium grade fluorocarbon. Exceptional presentation of bait is assured due to its high quality. In water its behaviour, reliable strength and all round robust nature combined with low visibility makes it essential for today’s specialist.

7 strains
Available in 7 breaking strains

Incognito sinks instantly as soon as surface tension is broken. Once immersed its superb transparency comes into play giving you the ideal tool for fooling wary line-shy fish. This new super fluoro ensures guaranteed knot strength for its diameter and when compared to conventional mono abrasion resistance is nothing short of outstanding.

Even better, unlike many brands on sale, Incognito has zero memory, this ensures it will lie straight along the bottom further improving your presentation.

Incognito has the perfect degree of stiffness for all mono presentations for coarse and game fishing alike. Using a wide range of rigs; standard, stiff or chods, it ties easily and securely to all hook patterns. It is ideal as a bottom hugging, no spook leader, when used in the higher breaking strains. It is first-rate as the stiff section of combi-links for totally tangle-free presentation.

It is tailor made for fly leaders and tippets; turning over perfectly and allowing the most delicate of presentations.

This superb product has been well and truly tested over a two- year period passing with flying colours in saltwater, rocky strewn rivers and weedy snag-ridden swims.

Incognito:
The ideal mono hook-length for carp, barbel and many other species.

Sounds good?…Then the best is yet to come.

You get a whopping 50mts for the same price as most other 20mt brands!!

Available in 5lb 7lb 9lb and 11lb at £ 6-99 per 50mt spool

13lb 15lb and 18lb at £ 7-99 per 50mt spool

Available now from all good tackle shops

verdict

It is no secret that Kryston gaffer Dave Chilton is my regular fly fishing partner and one of my close friends, so if anyone suspects that this review is biased then so be it. But I can assure you that if Kryston ever developed a product that I considered unfit for purpose (and I’m lucky in that I get to test many of Kryston’s products long before they ever hit the market) I would tell Dave as much and he would take this on board, along with any other feedback from several other field testers, and continue the development process until everyone was satisfied it was the best that could be produced. Kryston products do not come onto the market until they have been thoroughly tested and approved by a number of very experienced anglers.

Dave Chilton
Dave Chilton

Incognito has probably undergone more thorough and rigorous testing – and I mean real testing, with rod and line and often with a hard fighting fish attached – than any other fluorocarbon mono. I’ve been using it since practically the first sample was produced around two years ago, mainly as a fly leader, but also for carp, barbel, chub, tench and bream. It is in fly fishing though where it has undergone the most stringent testing, the line being put through trials that you would never normally expect a fluoro to have to endure.

The first thing you notice is how straight it is; you pull a length off the spool and it hangs straight down from your fingers. Then you notice that the diameter/strength ratio is as good as any and better than most. And when you use a fly leader of perhaps 5m (15ft) you appreciate that you’re getting 50m for your money rather than the usual 20m.

When you cast the leader forms a great loop and the fly lands just as it should do on the surface. We tested it against a number of other fluoros, most of them specifically sold for fly leaders and not one could match Incognito for presentation and straightness.

But how did we rate it for strength? Fluoro can be notoriously fickle with some brands, in fact some are downright unreliable and others just land in a big heap of coils!

Using the 5lb bs, during fair testing, ie, big rainbows up to 7lb or so hitting the fly on the run, playing and landing them the line was great, no problems at all and we soon grew in confidence and began bending the rods into the fish far more than we normally would and we never had a single breakage. On one memorable day Dave and I caught 46 rainbows each, all over 4lb, and didn’t get broke once, and that included several spells when we each had two or three wind knots in the leader, deliberately left in to see how the line would cope.

The ultimate test
The ultimate test

And then came the ultimate test. We stopped using the landing nets and just grabbed hold of the leader as we unhooked the fish and released them without the fish leaving the water. There are not many lines you can do that with and, to my knowledge anyhow, certainly no other fluoro.

I pestered him to release the line on the market, but still Dave took his time, wanting to make absolutely sure it was as good as, and preferably better, than any other fluoro he’d tried. That was more than a year ago and we’ve caught many fish on it since, as have all the other field testers, some of them FM members, as I’m sure they’ll testify to on the forum. Dave has also used Incognito to catch extremely hard fighting bone fish in the Bahamas.

I make no apologies for this glowing review and unreservedly declare Incognito to be better than a good fluorocarbon mono, it’s a great one, the best I’ve ever used and one in which I have 100% confidence. If you want the best fluoro at a very good price for 50m, then look no further.

rating: 10/10

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