Thread: Sufix Nanobraid 2lb

Well, I finally got out with the Sufix and the river finally went down. Down side was the front that went through Christmas Eve. Been cold and clear with high pressure since. The warmest day since then, it went into the 60’s today and having been sick not long back I wasn’t against waiting for the right time. I pulled the trolling stuff from the boat and threw in the UL stuff and headed out. After it warmed up some from 40 this morning.

My 5’6” Fenwick UL, medium taper rod with a President 20 size and the 2lb Sufix Nano braid I was throwing the favorite 1/43 #8 head with a Bobby garland Itty Bitty slab slayer. First cast I was impressed, what I consider very good distance compared to the Nanofil Ive been using for a few years now. I spend most of my time where I was today shooting into tight spaces among down trees and weed clusters, and it behaved admirably with no wind knots or loops to complain about. The wind was light at 5 to 7 mph, allegedly, and a plus was that it wasn’t blown around as badly as the Nanofil. I think the coating or bonding or whatever the difference is helped with this. I caught three fish today, two crappie and a stud bluegill, all of which would have gotten the invitation to dinner. The crappie in the attached picture fought like a stud gill and never gave up til he was in the boat, over 11” and full of himself. Sensitivity of the line was as good at least as the Nanofil letting me feel little gill pecks and branches I was pulling over. The overall personality of the line is very good with one downfall, that being it’s color. Being dark makes it tough to see and the only knots tied in it today was a double uni to join my normal 4lb clear mono leader and it gave me no issues. I have two spools of it with half a spool on this reel over a near full spool of 4 lb mono. My opinion is that it’s good stuff and I’ll be trying it in 4 and 6lb on a couple of rods in the near future. I have some 4lb Nanofil on a 6’6” favorite rod of mine and the complaint on durability is the same, hoping this fills the bill. That rod will cast a 1/16 25% further than any other rod I have because of the Nanofil and I don’t want to lose that.

That’s the best I can tell you about the Sufix 2lb nanobraid, I’m impressed overall and will put the other half spool on another rod. Hope this helps someone and I apologize for the wait for the report. Hope Christmas was good for everyone and I wish you a happy and healthy New Year. Tight lines...... Skeet

I shall see next season. Got the 2lb of Nanobraid to try. Still don’t know which reel since all of them have Nanofil and I just spool it last season. Good point about the wind, just little of it and Nanofil blow left right like crazy, but I can translate it as Nanobraid coating is heavier than Nanofil and would sink faster too??? I love Nanofil over braid on this slow sink especially on trout magnet when fishing super shallow for bluegill.