Nanofil Round 2 = Still Garbage

[blckshirt98]

About a year ago I made a post or commented on a post about how one day I was using my DS setup with a reel spooled with 8lb Nanofil and a 7lb FC Sniper Finesse leader and one day I started getting strange breakoffs where the line would fail in random places along the mainline (not at the usual points of failure like line connections and knots).  Both on hooksets and when trying to free my rig from debris in the water, I had these strange line breaks about 4 times in the same morning.  I stripped all the Nanofil and respooled from a fresh spool of 8 lb Nanofil.

Fast forward one year to now and I've used that reel minimally, and this morning I ran into the same issues.  I use a swivel on my DS setup to connect 7lb FC Sniper Finesse with 8lb Nanofil and I had FIVE breaks ABOVE the swivel this morning when trying to pull my rig free from debris/plants in the water.  This is the same debris/plants that I can break free from with 8lb PowerPro/7lb fluoro leader.  Something about the Nanofil makes it fail catastrophically that none of my other lines have been able to duplicate.  Maybe the way the line is spun the slightest nick will cause the line to cut at the nick (like how once you have a loose thread the whole thing just wants to unravel).  Either way there's some characteristic with the Nanofil that's making it fail where it shouldn't.  Stripping the line and spooling with more 8lb PowerPro no more Nanofil for me!

/endrant

[Kevin22]

Agree 100%. Same thing happened to me and 3 guys i fish with. We all went back to braid. (These were walleye setups) 

[S Hovanec]

I have a spool of nanofil.  Never fished with it.  I just use it as pull loops when wrapping rods.  From your description, that's all its good for too.  Glad I never spooled it up.

[Bluebasser86]

I liked Nanofil and never had the fraying/breakage issues everyone seems to have, maybe I got lucky. 

That said, I like Gliss way more than I liked Nanofil and it seems to be fairly similar. 

[aquaholik]

Nanofil will go from breaking below labeled strength to breaking 60-70% above labeled strength with FG knot. 10 lbs Nanofil will go from 8lbs uni knot strength to 17 lbs FG knot strength.

You can safely put 5lbs of drag on 10 lbs Nanofil and beat some big fish around structure.

 

We normally target 1-3lbs fish but it's plenty strong with FG knot for the bigger by catch.

 

[Kevin22]

That's fine and dandy, and I do agree the FG knot is by far the best knot.. But the issues we are having is the line is fraying 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 feet above the bait. It happened on the OPs rod, all of my nanofil set-ups, and 3 of my buddies' setups. Parts of the line that don't even touch the bottom get frayed up. I don't know why, but it breaks down FAST. First month or two its pretty nice line (a little stiff for me though), then it goes way down hill very fast. We were all using 10# nanofil locally. 

 

[aquaholik]

FG knot is about the only knot that will retain 80%+ of its true ABS of close to 20 lbs (Nanofil 10lbs). Tie a uni knot to a swivel, fish it a bit and the line gets frayed from use and your uni knot will drop from 8lbs to 5lbs KBS. Easy to explain why people snap it on a hook set or a hard cast.

It even frays on tightening the knot.

But 11-13 lb of KBS is still plenty for 5lbs of drag on a spinning reel. In fact enough to burn up the felt drag washers of the Stradic FK 3000 in one season.

 

[Bluebasser86]

I've been fishing the same spool of Gliss since January and after lots of use I haven't seen any issues. Biggest issue I've had was it dug into itself a little Saturday hauling in a 21 1/2 pound flathead I caught on a Ned Rig. 

I had 2 reels with Nanofil for 2 years and didn't have the issues everyone seems to have with it. I sold both the reels with the line on them and as far as I know they're still being used with that line on them. It's very technique specific line for me, but what it does right it does very well. 

[aquaholik]

The initial stiffness and slickness of Nanofil make it real easy to work a jig in the wind without the worries of wind knot or tip wrap. I was jigging with J braid right against a SE wind that was in my face. Tip wrap was annoying with the whipping style of working the jig fast. Nanofil and Fireline is also very kids friendly. I can hand them the setup and not worried about loose loop causing tip wrap and wind knot. It's just a very forgiving line.

I use 24lb test Gliss(which test no where near 24 lbs BTW) last year and hooked into a 60-70 lbs Tarpon which I should be able to land in open water. 30 minutes battle and the FG knot broke after upping the pressure to 6-7 lbs and the fish shook it's head. I tested the line after that fight and it went from 15lbs FG knot strength to 11 lbs FG knot strength. I can see the coating wore off and the line begins to fuzz lightly after about only 20 hours of use. But I can see that Gliss and Nanofil are best used in a finesse situation with light weight lure and long cast are needed.