Thread: fishing line that does not tangle?

If the line is higly visible to you, the fish cant see it.

for example

cajun line its freakin red! but you cant see it in the water.

"kornphlake", 4# test XL is about as user friendly as line gets - it would require serious talent to tangle! Seriously, I would suspect your "older" reel as the culprit - is the line sitting on the spool bulging in an area as opposed to being evenly wound top to bottom? If so, line winding onto the spool during retrieve could slip from a high to low spot forming a loose loop which could cause an excessive amount of line to exit the spool at the same time on a cast often in a tangled bundle. The first retrieve coil onto the reel after the bail flips over after a cast is also notoriously prone to be loose looped.

When I examine a spinning reel, the absolute main first thing I check is if the vertical oscillation (up & down movement) of the spool is sufficient to coil line fully top to bottom on the spool. For example, if the spool has a vertical line capacity of 2" and it oscillates only 1 -1/2" then the almost 1/2" of spool that the line roller on the bail cannot directly guide line onto might tend to fill up with slipped loose coils. An efficient way to check for spool winding coverage is to turn the handle of a (spinning) reel at eye level and examine where the bottom of the line roller will lay line on the spool as it oscillates and the rotor turns. Value price reels(of which I am a fan) seldom have well balanced oscillation but one can pick the best available within their price range.

edited: for clarity

Look at the ten post and read again and then look at the member posting them and reference them on other threads and see who is catching the most fish and go with that line and set up...that is a benefit of a fishing forum; information is power. I don't think that would offend any one here, use the information presented by all our members and learn from their monstrous combined time on the water and fish in the freezer.
As far as line not twisting on a spinning reel, well if you or anyone else discover's or finds a line that doesn't twist, has no memory, doesn't spook fish and is cheap.
Become a sales rep, I would be first in line. I do like fluorocarbon line for my leader material, but like all things that work I am sure some one will find some thing about this stuff that is toxic or causes water to turn to rum. It is a very nice leader material, you don't have it on the reel long enough to twist and it is invisible in clear water - while reeling my lure in I watch my lure the last 15 feet of so and with this stuff - the lure looks like it is floating free



Chuck

You might try closing your bail by hand instead of turning the handle, the bail on older reels will sometimes catch the lin and spin it as the bail closes. Sounds too simple but it may not be your line at all.