Anyone use KVD Line and Lure Conditioner??

[fiddlefarter]

Anyone else use this stuff?

I have been using this stuff for a while and it works pretty well for keeping line limp and castable when its this cold.

It will also keep hi-vis line from fading. I noticed that some of the yellow crappie line I've been using faded over time even when I had them stored. I used it on my line this past spring and the line still looked brand new when i took my crappie rods out the other day. (Sorry guys I fish a lot of green fish tournaments in the summer so I don't crappie fish all year) So far i've been impressed with KVD.

[ReelfootYankee]

Isnt it just spray cilicone?

[Cane Pole]

Anyone else use this stuff?

I have been using this stuff for a while and it works pretty well for keeping line limp and castable when its this cold.

It will also keep hi-vis line from fading. I noticed that some of the yellow crappie line I've been using faded over time even when I had them stored. I used it on my line this past spring and the line still looked brand new when i took my crappie rods out the other day. (Sorry guys I fish a lot of green fish tournaments in the summer so I don't crappie fish all year) So far i've been impressed with KVD.

Usta fish Mossybacks all the time. One day when I returned home late, my wife yanked my BVDs out my buttox. This caused my head to fall to the ground, which she quickly commenced to kick around like a soccer ball. She finally placed my head back from where it fell.

Lesson learned. Well, I still have my head up my buttox, but we now crappie fish together. No Mossybacks......:p

[fiddlefarter]

No... according to the website, KVD is a blend of non-toxic polymers that actually bonds to the line. Silicon oil only temporarily coats the line... Spray silicon also offers no UV protection, which means hi-vis lines will still fade. I have used spray silicon before, its much messier than KVD. Here's where I got my info: Kevin VanDam's Line & Lure Conditioner - FAQ


It works really well on Flourocarbon. I use fc a lot bass fishing and it's much stiffer by nature than monofilament. I had some Vanish 17lb test that I thought about throwing away before I tried the line treatment on it. It was like wire and looked like a roll of unraveled baling wire when you cast. It was comparable to 50# line from the discount bin . I sprayed it down and used it almost all last summer after that... I would use flourocarbon crappie fishing because it's so much more sensitive than mono but I like using hi-viz line. I'm pretty sure you could use the lower diameters flouros on spinning gear if you used KVD. FC ain't worth a crap on smaller spinning gear by itself from my experience. I have a hard time going back to mono after using FC. It's like fishing with a rubber band, mono is so stretchy compared to FC.

[Redy2Fish]

Is Real Magic and KVDs line conditioner about the same as WD-40? There's no such thing as a "dumb Question". They all smell alike (to me).

[fiddlefarter]

Now that there's funny CP, I don't care who you are...

I'm gonna come up and fish with you this year!! If you'll let me anyway. I've been wanting to since I first started hanging around here. Gonna do it this year.


Reel Magic's like WD-40. KVD's a whole different animal. ie: no petroleum distillates in KVD... Solvents in the water ain't never good, even if they are just the carrier as is stated on the can of Reel Magic.

[Cane Pole]

Now that there's funny CP, I don't care who you are...

I'm gonna come up and fish with you this year!! If you'll let me anyway. I've been wanting to since I first started hanging around here. Gonna do it this year.


Reel Magic's like WD-40. KVD's a whole different animal. ie: no petroleum distillates in KVD... Solvents in the water ain't never good

ok.

[fiddlefarter]

You don't sound very excited... I tell you what if we accidentally snag any green carp we will throw 'em up on the bank so you won't have to mess with 'em no more and I won't tell momma you caught 'em so she won't kick your head around again

[CrappiePappy]

Is Real Magic and KVDs line conditioner about the same as WD-40? There's no such thing as a "dumb Question". They all smell alike (to me).

NO .... nowhere close to the same thing.

Real Magic is silicone/UV protectants ... w/petrol distillate as a propellant.

WD-40 is a petroleum based solvent (water displacement agent).

KVD Line Condit. is a polymer based coating agent w/UV protectants.

... cp

[Redy2Fish]

Thanks, CP. I don't use either, but, a friend of mine who uses only Fluorocarbon line swears by WD 40 and Real Magic. I'll have a sit down with him and tell him about the KVD line conditioner. I think mono is slightly better for crappie fishing because of the stretch.