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Braid: hollow or solid?

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Malcolm Crane:
For what it's worth I've been using nothing but JB hollow in their 80lb designation for quite a few years now and can't fault it in any way. I do take advantage of the ability to splice loops in it and therefore eliminate knots wherever possible.
I really appreciate the fact that you can easily and very quickly splice line onto your spool if you need to replace a worn section.

I've never been able to notice any appreciable difference for me in casting distance between PE line, solid or hollow braid, and as Luke states its easily obtainable, good value for money and I've never had cause to question its reliability.

Mark Harris:
many thanks Luke (and Malcolm :) )

Mark Gonsalves:
I've used JB hollow for about 4 years now and it has always held up under the most adverse conditions.  Using L2L connections with up to 400lb wind ons.  I did recently try ToroTamer hollow and it has worked well for me since this September.   I will be trying the small 20 and 30 lb hollow 16 strand this year.  Hollow works well for almost ALL of my fishing applications from plugging to casting baits from the beach.

Wayne Brown:
I have some of the new seaguar threadlock hollow on order as we speak to try out. Basil from bhp tackle, who sells a lot of jerry brown, rates it very highly. Will be interesting to see how it compares to the jerry brown 60 and 100lb I am using at present. Supposed to have exceptional impact strength. Personally I love being able to top up worn sections of line via a line to line splice which saves a bucket load on line in the long run.

Alex Jordan:
+1 for Hollowcore - with Nick's Yucatan knot I can't fault it for mainline with a bombproof leader connection ...

When I was out in S Oman in Oct last we had all sorts of issues with the Sunline Monster Battle - it was almost too brittle and didn't like being knotted ... between Andrew and myself we busted around 5 leader knots on his setup's compared to none with the hollowcore :/

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