Cookie - a bit overboard on her Cat gear.

[Cowboypirate]

That's quite the haul of tackle.  You can NEVER have too much money, or too much fishing stuff   I enlarged that photo, but couldn't really tell.  That Orange line, looks like 2 spools. Is that Catfish mono, about 30# ? 

 I bought this last year, mainly cuz I thought I could see it good. And I could. It was fairly strong, but it cast screwy, and the lline went out looking like a orange slinky. once it was on the water awhile, the coils flattend out, but I just didn't really care for it. 
Hope you have better results if that is mono. 

I have had some really poor luck with large diamter mono for exactly the reason you mention, but I opted to try again. To see if I get better flow off the spool without all that memory coiling, I dropped down to 15 lb high performnace mono  and will run 20 or 30 lbs leader. This line is the line they sell on whisker seekers. It got good reviews, so will see. But I have my braid ready if I dont like it. Hope we see you out on the river. Still decideing if it will be Willard or the Bear in the morning.