Don’t buy cheap fishing line…

[fish4942]

Along with checking out every reel & rod combo at sporting goods stores I often browse the many type of fishing lines available. I’ve purchased some well known brands but the cheaper entry level stuff for my light tackle. But after trying Stren and a couple of others I’ve discovered that the line Bass Pro Shops offers beats most of the cheap name brand lines. I believe BPS uses Berkley. The Stren original was horrible on my spinning reel. It felt brittle and tangled horrible on just about every cast. Before the Stren I had it spooled with some free stuff from Dicks Sporting Goods which was just as horrible. I went in to have BPS strip Stren off of one of my reels and spool it on another, and I was going to purchase 8lb Berkley XL to replace Stren. BPS recommended I spool it with their line and it would be less than half of what the Berkley off the shelf would be. My spinning reel feels like a new reel. For a moment I was hoping BPS would have another trade in your reel special. I would have been first in line.

Disclaimer: This correspondence should not be deemed as a proclamation of BPS having the best fishing line in the universe and no other line should be used, and may not be interpreted as such.