Flourocarbon vs nylon

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I lost a big fish once, on cheap fluoro. All of us have a big fish story of the one that broke off etc. That cheap fluoro worked great on all the fish that day, except that one. Of course, i may have had an extra casting er wind knot. Maybe it had some abrasion, who knows for sure why it really broke. However, I still remember that fish, the one I didn't even see. The one I had to try and horse out of the undercut bank with all kinds of woody debris in it. I believe the fish just out muscled the fluoro. I was disappointed, but it happened again on a different river. Again really impossible to really know for sure the reason for tippet failure when it happens. I still use more affordable tippet on smaller uintah streams/lakes or at other locales where I'm pretty confident I'm not going to find a monster. But if I am fishing places where a large fish might reside, I wanna use the best (stongest per diameter) I can afford. No matter what I end up using/purchasing, the #1 thing I compare is strength to diameter. In some ways if can pay for itself, in less flies lost (to fish or snags), time not lost due to re-rigging, or spent at the vice.

Oh for knots, with fluoro- fluoro is a bit slippy, so a double surgeons doesn't really hold well for me. Triple surgeons works well, as does blood and uni-knots.
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