Which Braid For Pike?

[zedhead]

my 30lb wiplash is lower diameter than 10lb power pro. jeep next time your in a tackle shop compare the two. used power pro for all my lure work and bait fishing for a season, fire backed the lot and have bben using wiplash eversince. only personal preferance however! hows the fishing going down there you southern fairy!

[Dick Dastardly]

As Ive often said when choosing a braid select it by diameter rather than breaking strain ie if its for piking the accepted "normal" size of mono is 15lb BS this has a diameter of around 0.35mm so choose a braid of similar diameter.This will help you avoid a lot of the common problems people get with braid. Despite its ultra thin property being helpfull in some specialist situations in most it can be a distinct disadvantage

 

Andrew you say that all braids sink eventually well Ive had several braids for well over 15 years that still float the same as they did when new.Or did you mean they can be made to sink?

 

As far as sinking or floating I always use floating.It doesnt take that much to pull them under.The only time I would use a sinking braid is if I wanted to fish a slack line and there is no place in piking for a slack line!

 

As Ive often said when choosing a braid select it by diameter rather than breaking strain ie if its for piking the accepted "normal" size of mono is 15lb BS this has a diameter of around 0.35mm so choose a braid of similar diameter.This will help you avoid a lot of the common problems people get with braid. Despite its ultra thin property being helpfull in some specialist situations in most it can be a distinct disadvantage

 

Andrew you say that all braids sink eventually well Ive had several braids for well over 15 years that still float the same as they did when new.Or did you mean they can be made to sink?

 

As far as sinking or floating I always use floating.It doesnt take that much to pull them under.The only time I would use a sinking braid is if I wanted to fish a slack line and there is no place in piking for a slack line!

[Vidar6]

First of all, Wiplash Pro it’s not a braid at all, but rather a fused line.

 

I used to have Wiplash on all my reels (anybody that knows me will know that’s more than a few ) but it did not take me long to discard it all. Wiplash Pro is all right in braking strains over 65Ib, but anything less than that is not very good, to put it mildly.

 

First lets start with the stated diameter as the info on the box is at the best of times wrong, actually if I were a cynical person I would have called it a premeditated deceit. In actual fact 30Ib Wiplash Pro has a measured diameter of approximately 0.25mm, which is similar to 30Ib Power Pro and more than three times thicker than what’s stated by the manufacturer.

 

Secondly, according to several independent tests I have in my possession the actual braking strain of 30Ib whiplash is less than 22Ib and for the 20Ib version less than 16Ib.

 

I strongly recommend everybody to get hold of a version of the Tacklebox main tackle catalogue where they every year publicise a comprehensive line test (actual diameter and braking strains for the bulk of mono, fluorocarbon and multifilament lines on the UK market), it makes for some extremely interesting reading.

 

The individual fibres that make up Wiplash (especially in the lesser braking strains) are also very, very prune to splitting from each other rendering the line prematurely obsolete.

 

There are braids out there, which are as good or even better than Power Pro, but Wiplash Pro is definitely not among them.

[Newt]

Vidar6, you don't post often but when you do, you always have great information for us. Thanks for that.

[Dick Dastardly]

Whiplash is often seen to be condemned by anglers on various Forums.....no coincidence that it is one of the lowest BS/Diameter braids on the market?

[colnerover]

any one tried the Wychwood braid if so any comments ? seems reasonably priced

[jeepster]

First of all, Wiplash Pro it’s not a braid at all, but rather a fused line.

 

I used to have Wiplash on all my reels (anybody that knows me will know that’s more than a few ) but it did not take me long to discard it all. Wiplash Pro is all right in braking strains over 65Ib, but anything less than that is not very good, to put it mildly.

 

First lets start with the stated diameter as the info on the box is at the best of times wrong, actually if I were a cynical person I would have called it a premeditated deceit. In actual fact 30Ib Wiplash Pro has a measured diameter of approximately 0.25mm, which is similar to 30Ib Power Pro and more than three times thicker than what’s stated by the manufacturer.

 

Secondly, according to several independent tests I have in my possession the actual braking strain of 30Ib whiplash is less than 22Ib and for the 20Ib version less than 16Ib.

 

I strongly recommend everybody to get hold of a version of the Tacklebox main tackle catalogue where they every year publicise a comprehensive line test (actual diameter and braking strains for the bulk of mono, fluorocarbon and multifilament lines on the UK market), it makes for some extremely interesting reading.

 

The individual fibres that make up Wiplash (especially in the lesser braking strains) are also very, very prune to splitting from each other rendering the line prematurely obsolete.

 

There are braids out there, which are as good or even better than Power Pro, but Wiplash Pro is definitely not among them.

 

i knew whiplash wasn't a braid, but not being familiar with whiplash pro thought it might be different, but thanks for confirming what i thought about the relative diameters and breaking strains vidar.

 

the fishings pretty good down here zed, some cracking perch, but no pike to speak of yet

[zedhead]

i did state that it was a personal opinion, and from experience of using wiplash for about 3 years fishing a minimum of once a week it has never let me down in any of the areas pointed out by vidar. never tangles, never breaks, in fact 2 weeks ago i was snagged up pulling for a break and managed to drag the snag into the margin - it was a 6 foot long steal gurder! so from my experience its breaking strain is superb as is its allround performance. as for not being braid does that mean i can do berkely under the trades description act? as they consider it to be braid!

[jeepster]

you going to make some home brew irn bru from that girder??

[zedhead]

nice to hear your enjoying the perch jeeps, keep at it for the pike, its been slow for the pike for me but better fish have made an appearance.