Sorry. My "Enter" key is not working so this will look like one long paragraph. Been out a few times in the last week at the the 33 Hole area. Broke my new Shimano Sellus pole the other day, so while replacing it with a Team Daiwa T model (I am not so much about all of the expert features, I like the style and the handle on their spinning rod. Its a dream to use), which has been a great rod, I also tried out some of the new Nano line from Berkeley. Casts great, smooth, great feel. No fish. Went back to 12 Lb fluorocarbon and all is good. The nano line was, I think, just so visible. Unlike what is said it was supposed to be: Invisible. Anyway, fishing was good but not great in the later afternoons. Not a lot of wind (ok, no wind at all) which is not good for me and my boat since I really need to anchor. Tried out one of my fall/winter spots not in the Vegas wash area and actually caught a few stripers. Also caught about a 2 lb small mouth there. Been fishing there for 5 years and never anything but stripers and occasional catfish. Small mouth was a surprise! Anyone else have any luck with the new Nano line? Love how it cast and how it felt but just no fish at all.
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I have not tried it on finesse type of scenerios. But my daughter has 12lb Nano on one of the rods she uses for crankbaits (spinning rod) and she catches just as many as me if not more than me and I use Fluorocarbon. I see lots of guys on Bassmaster/FLW TV events using Nano on their spinning rod set-ups. At least I am fairly sure that is what they are using. Can't think of anything else that would be white. Also there is several shows devoted to Walleye fishing that swear by Nano and do great, at least on TV, catching finicky Walleyes on jiggs/vertical fishing, etc. I also see a lot of the guys fishing the FLW Walleye circuit on TV using Nano too.
I can see the stuff really great in the water so makes me a pinch nervous too but the results for us say otherwise. Unless the fish we have been into don't care.
So far happy with the stuff. I did run 6lb for a bit last year when it first came out on one of my trout rods and did fine catching Rainbows but even though I was running a ML rod the zero stretch thing was killing me on Rainbows. I snapped off quite a few on lures on the hook set. Even with a light drag setting it was just too much of a solid hit. Went back to mono for trout fishing and did much better on the catch ratio. On the other side casting distance was just silly with 6lb Nano verse 8lb Mono. I bet somewhere around 30-40% longer cast distances with Nano on.
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The Nano line casts GREAT and the distance you get with it is amazing. And it is smooth. I think since I generally fish cut sardines or anchovies the visibility may have been a problem since when I went back to fluorocarbon fishing picked back up. For any sort of casting/lure application I am sure that would be much less of an issue. And its a dream to chuck with. I left it on a spool so I can go back to it when needed to try it again on some. I think Fireline is also as white as the Nano line. I have not tried Fireline yet so not sure and obviously no ideas as to its visibility.
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In that case I would just use a small swivel and a fluorocarbon leader. Still get the same great casting distance plus when you are pulling in a empty line with a sardine on it you won't get any line twist on the Nano. That stuff doesn't like line twist.
I use straight braid for drop shotting (10lb) and not a issue. Sometimes as much as 25% of our catches on a day out are on a drop shot. But it isn't the white braid line. Still more visible that fluorocarbon but results say don't worry about it.
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