Ok,
I said I would come back and offer some sort of opinion on this stuff and so here goes.
Overall I like it, but I have dislikes too.
Dislikes:
It’s rather expensive on face value but if you consider that you don’t have to bin it after old esox has had a chomp on it and spiralled it to fuzz, like ordinary trace wire, then there’s a chance it might even work out better and whilst it’s impossible to say for sure, I reckon it did for me.
Maybe that should have been a like?
It also comes packaged as a rather curious coil which is bound by the type of seals that you used to see around bread bags years ago, for the price I think it ought to come on a spool…
Also, I could not for the life of me knot the stuff despite trying repeatedly and following instructions on the back of the packet and youtube…
I ended up crimping it.
Likes…
Now this is weird…
As the marketing blurb states the wire actually stretches and it feels weird when you do it, a bit like pulling a spring balance to its limit and then finding a bit more beyond it. The reason I like this is simply because I bought the 6lb test with the intention of using it for perch where, in certain situations, I needed the insurance of wire for the toothy critters and I reckon the stretch really assists when big perch are doing their usual, violent head shaking thing.
It’s also nice and fine.
I think it’s designed as a lure leader as it’s very stiff compared to many others so forget static deadbaiting but that stiffness helps if you want to use it as a paternoster trace which is what I’ve been doing.
It’s no miracle cure, I think there are far more subtle and thinner trace materials on the market but it’s worth considering for its rightful purpose…
And paternosters
