Berkely Vanish Fluorocarbon Bad Batch?

[Drew03cmc]

Vanish is awful stuff.

[iceintheveins]

As the others have said, it's the worst, most brittle garbage ever.

[WachusettsPete]

After losing 4 kastmasters, learning new knots and asking alot of questions, I finally arrived at, "Ooooh! The line is just terrible!" It's tensile strength is more-or-less as advertised, and it does indeed "vanish," but it doesn't react well to G-force or quick snaps...you know,  setting and casting. ? I have had sucess with 6 pound vanish because I don't tax it. I have caught plenty of small rainbows and a couple smaller salmon(2ish pounds, ~18") When I tried to use ten pound as leader on some power-pro 20 it failed again and again. Bad twists kinks and wouldn't hold up with a 3/4oz lure. Its brittle and inflexible at higher gauges. Light weight vanish isn't usually a problem for casual use but if you test it will fail. Period. I don't mind it on my medium trout rod but once this spool is done I'm moving on. The 10 pound isn't good for much. I switched to "Offshore Angle Extreme 15lb" which is about twelve bucks an inch but excellent.

[wnybassman]

On 7/16/2015 at 2:10 PM, senile1 said:

Every now and then we have a thread about Vanish and there are a number of anglers who continue to state the same complaints about the line.  I tried Vanish 9 - 10 years ago and my experience wasn't good either.  What surprises me is that after all this time the product still appears to  have the same problems with a significant percentage of anglers.  Per the Berkley site in the description tab for Vanish, it has been on the market for 15 years.  There must be some good spools of the line or it wouldn't have been on the market for this long, but the number of complaints I see in multiple forums has convinced me to not buy it.

I've been using Vanish for nearly all of those 15 years and am still waiting for my first bad spool.    For whatever reason I have always had great luck with the line and continue to use it.   I must be doing something wrong.    I do take great comfort knowing if/when they discontinue the line, I can use anything else with better results.    lol

[Crestliner2008]

I've been using Vanish for a couple of decades now - as leader material - with no problems.

[blongfishing]

I am actually shocked at this posting. I have used vanish for a few years now and have not had a problem out of it. I fish 200+ days out of the year and fish tournaments and have yet to have an issue from it. Run 8 or 10 pound on all my flouro rods. A family member of mine is a striper guide that uses Berkley Vanish on all of his spinning setups and I have a video of a customer catching a 30 pounder on it! I haven’t heard bad things about it before. Maybe I just got lucky. LOL

[Boomstick]

I have used Vanish as a leader when I was desperate so I picked some up at the local Walmart (they didn't have any Seaguar lines or Berkley Trilene fc which would have been preferred). If you retie often and constantly check the line and replace every time you see any fraying (which is a few times a fishing trip), it's passable but the problem is it's not abrasion resistant in any way. If you snag a weed, it could cause the line to start to break, and even knots will fray the line at the knot. I would not consider it as a mainline for this reason plus the fact that it's very stiff.

 

There are just better lines out there, but it works if you're desperate.

[Djohn]

Tried it once and i'll never use it again. kinks, breaks you name it. Seargar Invizx gets my vote.