[JonD]

Shimano ocea is one you should add to your list. Its extremely long lasting without loosing colour, fluffing and more accurately labelled in strength, the fact its accurate means it's very thin. Its what I use on my offshore tuna and marlin reels, where Im often using expensive lures on very large fish and want a line I feel very confident using.

 

[JonD]

This is worth a watch if you fish with sufix 131 the tests are on Australian 10lb 131 which is the same diameter as UK and European 28lb sufix 131 this is why it can be a headache with braid diameters with such variation

I take these with a pinch of salt but do agree 131 breaks well above its rating like most other braids.

What I find very odd about this Australian video testing of yours? is that everything the guy does is in lbs, where here we work in kg. Also the 131 I buy has different labelling to what he has as you can see here from 131 from large stores which have franchise stores all over the country.

Testing by "Fishing Monthly" magazine had far different results to what you have posted as you can see here while testing 20lb 131. I use the 131 20lb knowing I have a little extra in reserve, which is around 7lb. I have no issues using 131 for any kind of lure fishing, the lure design and speed I work them dictates the depth with mine. Ive yet to have to replace any 131 which Ive been using well over 2yrs now.

You can watch the entire video if bored but the findings are pretty much thicker braid is stronger than thinner braid.

 

[JonD]

I used spider wire many years ago (from the UK) and found it to break well bellow its rating and vowed never again. However I bought three spools of stealth blue camo 8, which again turned out to be awful, won't give them anymore chances.

 

[JonD]

How was it awful? Haven't used that particular model, there are quite a few varients now, like spider wire invisibraid too.
I notice the camo blue is on sale too.

First use was good but after that I soon noticed the colour fading and the breaking point reducing. Given most of my fishing is targeting species above line strength I buy, it simply wasn't acceptable.

Often you will find those stating they have not had any issues with it are using heavier line such as 20lb to target bass where even an exceptional specimen would be 10lb. Unlike the UK where a decent sized bass is far from common, here its almost guaranteed to catch fish after fish in the 4-8kg size from the shore. So testing any line or tackle soon finds faults, not to mention most of these species targeted are fast hard fighting pelagic's.

Unfortunately posting these facts on here soon turns people defensive on the line they have but the fact is that the fish are here in numbers so testing any part of a tackle setup can be done in a short period which could take a lifetime to do back home.