Best Mono Line hands Down

[Florida Cracker2]

Most of my reels are spooled with Big Game because it performs well and doesn't break the bank (I replace line often).

To be honest, after using many brands over the years, I really haven't seen a noticeable difference. I do prefer spiderwire on my super ultralite rigs because it's thinner. I can use 6# test and cast like 4#. I will always have a sweet spot for Trilene XT because It was a big thing to me as a kid. 

[Crispycode]

Sunline supernatural is horrible.

Izorline is all u need

[king fisher]

Maxima Ultra green 

[N.Y. Yankee]

So this is an old thread but here is a good story for you. I take my youngest niece fishing once in a while. We were on a river with some largemouth in it, casting spinners and catching a few. She cast a large Rooster Tail tied on with a Palomar knot and put it in a tree limb well out over the water. After trying everything I knew, the lure was still there. I said Im going to have to break it off. She had a Zebco 202 that I had filled with original Stren 10 lb green. 

 

I pulled with the rod. Stopped so as not to damage that. grabbed the line and pulled. Slipped through my hands. Wrapped the line around my hands and pulled. Really pulled. My hand began to hurt. I wrapped my right hand with my fishing towel and wrapped the line around that. This time I took off walking back into the grass, away from the water. 

Now I really put my weight into it. We're pulling on about 30-40 yards of line. The limb was bending severely and I thought, good, Ill just break it off. Nope. Too tough. Now I had to break this line. It was a personal goal now. Wary of getting line in the face, I backed up more and gave it everything I had and then a bit more. POW!!! It sounded like someone shot a .38 revolver 10 feet from my face! Of course I stumbled backward but stayed upright. I looked up to see the line fall away and watch the lure drop into the river!

 

So I learned 3 things. 1, Sometimes you just got to give a stuck lure some slack. 2, The Palomar knot is a great knot for mono! And 3, in that situation, at that time, with that knot, and the way I was pulling on it, original Stren can be some incredibly tough line. For $5.89 a spool, and it's in every store you can go to, that's the one I'm going with!

 

Learn to tie strong knots, keep your lures out of the trees and you will be fine. Stren and Trilene has been around a long time. A LONG time. There is a good reason for that. At that price (as of 12-13-19) you can afford to change it out once in a while.

[Tizi]

Just mono, I used to use Maxima Chameleon.  Now I use Yo-zuri Hybrid for 8 lbs to 14 lbs and Sufix Siege for under 8.

 

20 or more:  Berkley Big Game

[WRB]

If Yo-Zuri hybrid 8 lb test @ .011 diameter is the bench mark for mono lines the term mono is meaningless. Mono (single) or monofilament would cover all single filiment lines except Yo-Zuri hybrid because it's a multiple filament coextruded line if you look at the detailed cross section Yo-Zuri promotes; bundles coploymer core with fluorocarbon outer jacket. All other copolymers and nylon mono lines are blended and extruded as a single filament line.

for the past 4 years I have been using Sunline Defier Armillo Nylon line. Armillo 11 lb test is the same diameter as 8 lb test Yo-Zuri hybrid @ .011 dia. Armillo is a very smooth low memory high strength mono.

Tom

[johnD.]

Silver Thread AN40 is a co-poly but , my favorite. It's now been discontinued by pradco. Luckily I have few thousand yards stashed of 10# and 17#.

[A-Jay]

23 minutes ago, johnD. said:

Silver Thread AN40 is a co-poly but , my favorite. It's now been discontinued by pradco. Luckily I have few thousand yards stashed of 10# and 17#.

I used this line quite a bit when it first came out.

Never disappointed me either.

When it was discontinued, I moved onto something else.

It's still available and in bulk too . 

http://www.ebaystores.com/Simmons-Sporting-Goods-of-Alabama/_i.html?_nkw=SILVER+THREAD+AN40+BULK+COPOLYMER+LINE+3000YD&submit=Search&_sid=223902033

A-Jay

[dodgeguy]

Sufix advance mono..

[new2BC4bass]

5 hours ago, johnD. said:

Silver Thread AN40 is a co-poly but , my favorite. It's now been discontinued by pradco. Luckily I have few thousand yards stashed of 10# and 17#.

Good thing I have 3000 yd. spools of the two lines I use most...8# and 12#.  Don't think I have to worry about running out at my age.  Especially since I don't get out several times a month much less several times a week like some of you.

[tander]

On 12/13/2019 at 11:31 AM, Crispycode said:

Sunline supernatural is horrible.

Izorline is all u need

Strange, use Supernatural for my mono needs, never a problem.

[Bird]

I haven't used mono in years but when I did, it was always Stren.

I do use alot of sunline as leaders. 

 

Yes, I'm a Braid addict. Lol

[Hammer 4]

A mono line I think that is way under rated and often over looked is Sufix Elite. I have it ranging from 6lb to 20 lb, and it has virtually no memory, cast's a country mile, good knot strength. The camo version blends in really well with a lot of water that I fish in, I also use the clear. Comes in 330 yard spools which is nice, and very reasonably priced. 

[PourMyOwn]

21 hours ago, johnD. said:

Silver Thread AN40 is a co-poly but , my favorite. It's now been discontinued by pradco. Luckily I have few thousand yards stashed of 10# and 17#.

Still my favorite,  I'm sitting on bulk spools for 6-14 lb test. I probably have a lifetime supply!

[Wildbillb]

I prefer stren for straight mono. Yozuri hybrid for a copolymer.  Never used braid before.

[TnRiver46]

I always use eagle claw. It’s about the cheapest thing going and I’ve never had line troubles. 

[bassinyea]

Stren Original.  There was a video testing abrasion resistance I believe it was made by SaltStrong.  Stren actually beat big game in that test as well as several other competitors fluorocarbon in abrasion resistance.  It also casts very well.  Been using it since I was a little kid and I can say it has never let me down.

[WRB]

Stren pre dates Trilene mono and one of the first on the market as I recall.

The state of the art mono line in the 60's was Western AN40 and Garcia Royal Bonnyl.

Maxima was one of 1st copolymer mono line and far more abrasion resistant then Stren or Trilene XT. I still use Maxima UG in 5 lb to 8 lb, larger sizes have too high a memory for me, extremely strong line however.

Tom

[Westcoast]

Maxima ultragreen gets my vote. It has the right combo of attributes that make it great line. I would hesitate to put it on spinning reels as it it fairly stiff and I put braid on all spinning now anyway. Second choice would be the new suffix advance mono handles very similar to UG but slightly less stretch from what I can surmise. 

[Columbia Craw]

We still be liken' Sunline Super Natural

[Plottman1974]

I have tried a bunch of mono lines;I am addicted to trying different ones.  I won't trash lines I haven't liked and I have tried a dozen or so in the last couple years, but I will say that Triline XL for spinning, Big Game for Baitcasting, and P-Line CXX for big swimbaits are my go to lines. 

 

I just ordered two spools of McCoy Mean Green to try.  One 6lb for spinning and a 12lb for baitcasting...

[Maxximus Redneckus]

Big game..

[roadwarrior]

On 12/13/2019 at 11:04 PM, WRB said:

for the past 4 years I have been using Sunline Defier Armillo Nylon line.