K Hawk

I've been fishing the Kanzen braid a lot since my last post in late Jan and wanted to give you some more feedback on it. I use 15lb and 20lb on all my spinning reels with a fluoro leader for all my drop shot, shaky head and wacky rig presentations. I like the thin diameter and the way it lays and comes off the spool. Knot strength is great too...make sure to use the modified albright knot when joining your leader. I pitched and flipped a Texas rigged Senko around all week on 60lb at Falcon Lake in March and it performed flawlessly. I was fishing in everything from brush to large diameter hardwood trees and it held up great. I used the same spool all week. I throw my topwater (buzzbaits and walking baits) on 50lb. I attach a short mono leader when fishing walking baits. Like the smaller tests it casts great. Love the no stretch factor when topwater fishing. All in all the Kanzen braid is super solid based on my experience with it and I personally wouldn't use it or recommend it to any of you if I didn't feel like it was a high quality braid that you'd like fishing with.

Every brand of braid I've fished with over the years fades to some degree over time. As a habit, I take a sharpie and color alternating sections of line (spaced out every few inches) up the line about 5 feet to help camouflage the fading and the line. That way you can retie a few times before having to break out the sharpie again. Not sure if this actually helps, but I have confidence doing it. Both Spiderwire Ultracast and Kanzen are super high quality braids. I like the fact that Kanzen comes in 80lb test where Ultracast maxes out at 65lb I believe. I haven't had an opportunity to fish Kanzen in anything other than 40 lb test so far, but will be using them all shortly. As I get some more water time with the other sizes I'll check back in with my thoughts.

I've been using Seaguar's Kanzen 40lb braid this winter on Guntersville fishing lipless crankbaits in the grass and have been really impressed with it. It's smooth and supple, so it casts extremely well. Definitely one of the better braided lines I've used. Kevin