Berkley Vanish Transition Fluorocarbon

[FryDog62]

It's funny when you have a bad product experience you never want to buy again even if the product changes considerably...

 

So, I purchased a spool of Vanish Fluorocarbon when it first came out and I think gave it all of 30 minutes of knot breakage and rats nesting before throwing it all away in the boat launch garbage can.  But I also hear how the product has been improved significantly and even if you didn't like it before you will now.  Of course this comes from their marketing people...

 

Anyone given it a fair shot since the latest improvements?  I'd be open to reading some objective reviews before I consider wasting money on an inferior product again

[Jason Penn]

i haven't used vanish in a long time, but i never seemed to have the problems with it everyone else had.  i always went the next step above whatever pound test i was wanting, and i also never tie palomar knots.  my father was a diehard crappie fisherman that only tied clinch knots, so i guess that kinda rubbed off on me.

 

take what i say with a huge grain of salt considering i also never had problems with the original vicious fluoro 

[Damn Yankee]

I fished vanish 4#  for years on my trout setup never a problem. 

[S Hovanec]

I've used it 3 times.  Once when Vanish first came out and 2 more times after it was reformulated and the problems were supposedly fixed..  Every time it didn't make it the entire day before a different spool was on my reel.

 

Don't care how many people love it and have no issues with it, to me it's crap.

 

Only things that Vanish are your money, your lures and the fish!!

[islandbass]

Fool me once, fool me twice. 

 

I bought my brother a rod and reel compre and symetre. Not know anything about vanish, or fishing in general (he was a newbie) he bought 8# vanish. At this point my knowledge of vanish were the horror stories so I was neutral. I tied on a crankbait using an improved clinch knot and tied it carefully. I used a light pull to cinch up the knot and the line broke as if it were sewing thread. It was shocking and stunning. there was no abrasion on the line. I always check the line before I tie a knot. I said sorry bro. I can't let you fish with that line. 

 

I like my trilene XL, XT, big game, p line, and inviszx and have no desire to gamble on vanish. Interesting how I could love Berkeley mono and won't touch vanish with a 10' pole.

 

I look forward to seeing testimony positive positive or negative about the current vanish. 

 

 

[BassNJake]

12 hours ago, S Hovanec said:

Only things that Vanish are your money, your lures and the fish!!

 

This was my experience as well

[HeavyTwenty]

I had a bunch of vanish knot failures, so I switched from palomar knot to san diego jam and it seems fine now. I'll probably try something else next time though. 

[Columbia Craw]

There are far to many good options out there to risk a " do over " for Vanish. It's not worth the risk to vindicate such a poor product.

[Finnz922]

Used it a long time ago. Good line. I use Sunline Sniper now. IMO Sunline is a much better line.

[FryDog62]

4 hours ago, Finnz922 said:

Used it a long time ago. Good line. I use Sunline Sniper now. IMO Sunline is a much better line.

Agreed but Sniper is low viz... wish they offered a higher viz option like their flipping line.  

[FryDog62]

Ok, I bought some Vanish... tried it out for 4-5 hours.  Skipping plastics under docks - figured that would test its tensile strength and knot holding abilities.  Had several hang ups on dock posts, cables, etc - and no line or knot failure.  Check that box!

 

Down side was a surprise to me though... I could hardly see the line above water.  I thought that is where the line was supposed to excel.  You skip a Senko or slow sinking fluke/tube under a dock you have to sometimes be able to see the line moving before you feel a bite. But the line was very hard to see above the water line.

 

Will stick to either hi viz braid/leader or with Sunline Flipping Fluorocarbon with the intermittent sections of clear and high viz.  Really starting to like the Sunline product - sinks, abrasion resistant, and no leader knots to tie/break... Like the 16 lb for many applications, wish they made 8-12 lb version too for lighter plastics like weightless Senkos.  

 

Vanish is back off the reel.  I tried again anyway -- 

[Sword of the Lord]

It was trash for me straight spooled, but now I use the leftovers for leaders and it's fine.

[Boomstick]

From what I have seen, people seem to like it as leaders but not as their mainline. I have only used it as a leader and have had no issues using it in 8 and 10lb for soft plastics. I will probably try Sunline or Trilene Professional Grade Fluoro next as I hear those are much better, but they had Vanish at Walmart so it was convenient.

[Bluebasser86]

Only time I had good luck with Vanish was walleye fishing. I'd much rather use Seaguar Red Label for about the same price. 

[Arlo Smithereen]

I've only seriously got into bass fishing the last couple years. I only use FC for a leader with a braid mainline. I didn't know any better and picked up the Vanish from wally world. After breaking my line on five or six hook sets and seeing that it was never the knot that broke, always the FC, I almost gave up on it. I picked up some Seaguar Invisx and have had much better success with it. Will never go back to Vanish.