The stuff can be a little dangerous... because of its high strength-to-diameter it can slice right into you. The first time I used it fishing, I was trolling and hung up. I grabbed the line in my hand and started pulling and was shocked when it quickly cut through my skin. It doesn't stretch like old-fashioned monofilament fishing line. That incident scared me a little and made me cautious about the stuff.
Take it easy,
desmobob
I was thinking of doing the same thing with the outer jacket from some paracord so that it wouldn't cut through the tarp tieouts.Originally Posted by WV
I don't know what they're called, but tent tie down lines sometimes come with plastic tab things on the end of them for adjusting the tension. They would be good on the fishing line so you wouldn't have to tie/untie any knots in the field.
My daughter and I did figure out a solution to it tangling in the pack though (we use a long length of it for a fish leash), we spool it up on a plastic bobbin (now that I'm a diy camper I have such things). You could cary quite a bit of it that way. In fact I think a bobbin full of 50# and a gorge hook is going to replace my entire backpack tackle box.
I had the same thought when I first posted. The old school braided line was like the cord they use for retractable badge holders. The new stuff is thin (usually green) and sort of waxy. It makes the older stuff seem very fat by comparisson.
That's a good point. Thanks. You could tie it up in a lot of potentially disasterous ways if you weren't careful. Accidentally clotheslining someone with the stuff could be fatal.
I have also witnessed people being cut by this type of fishing line. If you were careful with I don't think it would be a problem but any cut out on a camping trip is not a good thing to deal with.
I think that this type of line would be small and strong.
However its size is going to cause extra problems.
Sure, you could get the high visibility stuff, but even
that is hard to see. The chance of tripping or even
garotting yourself on this line is significantly higher.
I would be very cautious about using this type of line
anywhere around a family campsite.
Kinda like Bank Line I would think. Should work. Lord knows I used braided dacron, spiderwire, fireline, and the like for stuff other than fishing... Only problem I can think of is this stuff is often black or dark in color and very small diamter - seeing it and not tripping over it.... That and it can cut through stuff too - including the skin on our shins!
I agree. There's light and there's dangerously light, even if it's theoretically possible. If you stumble into an ultra-thin, ultra-strong line like that with bare skin it can spell real problems. I personally wouldn't go less than 1.5mm for tarp flies, guys or anything like that, no matter how strong it is. For whipping, braided line can be great, also as a twine for emergency sewing repairs. I use waxed sailmakers twine for sewing and whipping, particularly good for things like sewing webbing and repairing rucksacks etc. It's amazingly strong.
I've always found the stuff a monsterous pain in the butt to tie, but if you can work well with it then good on you mate.
I guess it depends on which brand you use. I love it, and because it's waxed, if you whip a rope with it, you can hold it above a flame (carefully) and melt the wax which seals and binds the whip very well. The type I use is Marlow no 4 whipping twine. I used it tonight to sew a loop in my webbing strap. It is so quick because it doesn't take many stitches to make a very strong join. Also, it is easy to see, and with a sailmakers needle you can thread it easily.
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