Fraser Hocks wrote: Yea Craig, id love to know if the loops on those high strength lines are created with something stronger than just the coating welded to to each other, or if there is some mechanical connection for the core? A couple of months back Simon Gawesworth was in the country. Would have been good to corner him on that side of things and get the lowdown on the construction of those Rio lines. An interesting point about radial cracking. Iv had that happen to most fly lines in the freshwater, but iv discovered that its down to the DEET destroying the PVC. Airflo aren't made with PVC, and seem to be relatively immune to DEET, hence that's all I use these days. I wonder if some of the cracking could be due to a reaction to suncream or DEET? A braided core line would obviously resist the cracking better due to the extremely low stretch, that been said iv bough a few braid cored lines and the lack of stretch can be a huge hindrance when hooking and playing a fish. You don't realize how much you need that stretch, until you don't have it! |
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