Why Does It Seem Nobody Else Is Using Nanofil?

[Master Bait'r]

I absolutely love this stuff.  Silly small diameter, super strong & tough, and I like the low vis green too...  So what gives?  I know they only go up to 17lb now and that it isn't limp like PP braid but why does it seem like nobody else is using it when my own experience has been so overwhelmingly positive?  This stuff is quieter, smaller and stronger than anything else I've used thus far so I'm just wondering why it seems too good to be true.  FWIW, I always use a double palomar and I've never lost a knot, not once.  Cheers!  

[Chris9999]

Honestly because up until now I had never seen it. Where can you get it? Might want to give it a try

[roadwarrior]

Our local Academy was basically giving it away for $3 and change and still few (no) takers.

I bought some #4 for a trout trip to see what it was all about. Unfortuantely I could not tighten

a knot without breaking the line. That was it for me, man overboard!

[Glenn]

I tried it for a year, and loved how easily it cast, and how quiet it was as it went through the rod guides.

 

However the abrasion resistance was abysmal.  Never have I had to retie as mush as I did with that line.  It seemed it frayed on virtually everything. I finally gave up on it.

[toned]

I started using this stuff by accident...I needed to re-spool on a trip and a buddy had a brand new spool he gave me...I tried it and been using it religiously since on all my spinning gear

 

I love this stuff and can't say enough good things about it..as you said, it's smooth, and strong

 

I use a regular palomar knot 

[Master Bait'r]

I tried it for a year, and loved how easily it cast, and how quiet it was as it went through the rod guides.

 

However the abrasion resistance was abysmal.  Never have I had to retie as mush as I did with that line.  It seemed it frayed on virtually everything. I finally gave up on it.

 

 

 

Hmmm...  I have only noticed a few nicks and have not had any issues with an inordinate amount of abrasion yet.  I will keep my eyes peeled for sure though!  

 

 

 

Our local Academy was basically giving it away for $3 and change and still few (no) takers.

I bought some #4 for a trout trip to see what it was all about. Unfortuantely I could not tighten

a knot without breaking the line. That was it for me, man overboard!

 

 

Man, that is strange to me.  I've never had such issues, but I also haven't gone down to #4 either.  I would ask if you wet the line but that would be like asking KVD if he's heard of Strike King haha

[roadwarrior]

Just to clarify the point, the line broke above the knot.

[Getfit74]

I absolutely love this stuff.  Silly small diameter, super strong & tough, and I like the low vis green too...  So what gives?  I know they only go up to 17lb now and that it isn't limp like PP braid but why does it seem like nobody else is using it when my own experience has been so overwhelmingly positive?  This stuff is quieter, smaller and stronger than anything else I've used thus far so I'm just wondering why it seems too good to be true.  FWIW, I always use a double palomar and I've never lost a knot, not once.  Cheers!

I'm right there with ya I love the stuff as well been using it since it came out on all my spinning reels. Like you I use a double palomar knot and haven't had any problems at all, just nice smooth long cast. I need to head to where RW was talking about $3 a spool holy crap I would buy them out.

[Master Bait'r]

Seriously, at $3 I would be tempted to buy BIG but with all the conjecture about it breaking and such I'd prefer to keep buying fresh line and condition it well.  No sense in opening yourself up to the perils of dry rotted line if there really could be longevity issues with the design of it.  

[ClackerBuzz]

if these two vets don't like that line you need to burn the rest off and run for the hills before you lose the fish of a lifetime. 

[Hyrule Bass]

if these two vets don't like that line you need to burn the rest off and run for the hills before you lose the fish of a lifetime. 

whats that got to do with anything? just because they have had problems with it doesnt mean everyone will. lemme pose you a question this way, based off your wording not mine: if these other supposedly "non-vets" are having success with it, what does that really say about the "vets" you're referring to? my intentions arent to de-value anyones opinion on the line, but to put equal weight in them so people can fairly make a decision for themselves to try the line or not...

[Christian M]

I tried Nano on a couple of my spinning and casting rigs. It was smooth & quiet, but man, it frayed like a piece of yarn after one day of use and broke above the knot on me as well. I went back to PP after about a week. I have a full spool of 8lb nano thats been sitting since the beginning of last season. All the stores around me took it off the racks.

[thehooligan]

i remember the first time using it and thinking this is the best line ive ever used.... Then after a few trips i started losing baits and fish. Went right back to 10lb pp and sufix for my spinning gear...

[Wayne P.]

My first experience with it was fishing with a crappie guide. He used the small stuff and it cast and performed well.

 

I got a spool of 17# to test on spinning gear, It has the same memory as mono. NO THANKS !!!!

[CTGalloway21]

cause nobody is using nanofil.  haha

[bootytrain]

Anyone using this on their baitcasters?

[Master Bait'r]

My first experience with it was fishing with a crappie guide. He used the small stuff and it cast and performed well.

 

I got a spool of 17# to test on spinning gear, It has the same memory as mono. NO THANKS !!!!

 

 

 

Try spraying it with some KVD line conditioner.   

 

I use 17lb on a baitcaster and have had zero problems aside from bouts of dumbthumb from time to time.  I use 8lb on my spinning gear and have had no problems at all there either.  

[iabass8]

The stuff casted great. It had very minimal abrasion resistance. Did not use for very long

[Deleted account]

Vanish laughs at Nanofil...

[NathanW]

I use 10#, and 12# test on spinning gear. This would be my third season. I always use a Fluoro leader with double albright knot. Never tied directly to the bait. I have not one failure to date!

 

I know what people are talking about with regards to abrasion resistance as the line tends to peel its coating and look a little hairy but this has little or no affect on the line strength. The line performs way too efficiantly to ignore. It doesnt wind knot ever, holds the double albright knot well (unlike conventional braids) which quite honestly is the easiest joining knot to tie, and still has all the casting, strength and stretch benfits of conventional braid.

 

When I pull snags 8 times out of 10 the line breaks below the knot, 2 times out of ten it breaks at the knot, 0 times out of ten it breaks above the knot. Maybe only a few time in three years has the mainline snapped while pulling deep water snags (40'-60'). I fish rock bottoms in Columbia river current so I snag often when fishing a drop shot or tube bait.

 

Just last weekend I flipped a 4" Senko way up inside a culvert, hooked up with a 2lbs largmouth, and the whole way realing it in the line was rubbing against the sheetmetal edge of the culvert pipe. Thought for sure it was a goner but the line held up.

[Hooligan]

NanoFil is singly the worst line that I've ever fished.  It's abrasion resistance is near zero, the coating is EXTREMELY temperamental with regard to knots, and the line twist is magnified tenfold by the form factor of the line.  I know two of the pros that helped develop the line, and they BOTH said they'll never, ever fish it.  It's purely marketing driven.  I've had zero use for it in any capacity for the reasons listed above, as well as wind knots, very poor break strength, and it ties terrible knots. 
Total waste of money, to me.

[roadwarrior]

NanoFil is singly the worst line that I've ever fished.  It's abrasion resistance is near zero, the coating is EXTREMELY temperamental with regard to knots, and the line twist is magnified tenfold by the form factor of the line.  I know two of the pros that helped develop the line, and they BOTH said they'll never, ever fish it.  It's purely marketing driven.  I've had zero use for it in any capacity for the reasons listed above, as well as wind knots, very poor break strength, and it ties terrible knots. 

Total waste of money, to me.

 

Glad to see you back!

 

Now what do you really think of the line?

 

 

[Hooligan]

Also- as to the suggestion of using KVD on the line- it does nothing.  ZERO.  It's chemically impossible for KVD to do anything to Nanofil because of the lines inherent properties.  It CANNOT absorb liquids.  It is 100% hydrophobic, waterproof.  Moisture will not penetrate the line, nor can it dry rot.  Any differences you perceive, are just that, your perceptions. 

[jignfule]

All I know is that it casts like a dream and frays

[Tywithay]

Used one spool and it was ok. Casted well and seemed strong. First time I got near cover it showed its weakness. I couldn't throw one cast without it fraying terribly. Took it off that night.