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Good job here, very detailed tests on 29 various brands:

while I haven’t tried a lot of those on the tests, I have tried quite a few different flouros. For one, seaguar is actually Seagarbage. Abrazx should be renamed. Abrasion resistant?!?! Lmao try abrasion attractant. Line is straight trash and this only confirms what I’ve thought for 14 years. If seagaur was the only flouro company left I’d just go back to mono

You want an abrasion resistant flouro? Try sunline structure fc

We always used Yozuri disappearing pink leader fishing all the so cal Marlin tourneys and the Bisbees along with all the other Marlin tournaments in Baja/mainland. For what that’s worth. $100k entry fees etc. never had any issues. I still use it for fresh. I don’t typically do mainline flouro, just leader

Interesting video.

He totally ignored flyfishing tippet material, which is often more supple, and sometimes more abrasion resistant that bulk lines. It also also often stronger per diameter than bulk spools for spinning or baitcasting reels. Both the standard 30 meter or the 100 meter "guide" spools can be used as topshots in front of other lines. Yes, it's more costly, but some brands may be superior.

He also glossed over the relationship between abrasion resistance and line diameter. A thicker but weaker line, even of a softer material, may often be more abrasion resistant than a stronger line.

Very nice series of tests but it would have been great if there were an Excel file with results for data nerds like me.
Things I would have analyzed for:
1. Tensile strength which is breaking strength divided by cross sectional area. He looks at strength divided by diameter which is not a standard engineering parameter.
2. Correlation (i.e. relationship) between the various parameters. I would certainly expect to see a positive correlation between diameter and abrasion resistance as pointed out by Tailingloop. Or memory and abrasion resistance.

I am usually not that big on fluorocarbon line. It is really not that much less visible underwater than mono. https://www.slideserve.com/lesley/mathe ... visibility

But it is nice for fishing unweighted plastics like Senkos. The higher density of the line results in less bow and better feeling of strikes as a result. It is often claimed that its better sensitivity is from less stretch but it is really from less bow in the line. And no, monofilament doesn't float, it is slightly higher density than water although not as high as fluorocarbon. You can test this out yourself, no need to take anyone's word.

Disadvantages of fluorocarbon compared to mono are higher cost, lower knot strength and (usually) more memory/stiffness and consequently harder to cast.

Only for leader, horrible for mainline on Spinning gear and generally had lots of memory on Conventional gear.