Steven Rinella

braid in terms of the fishing line arms race there's this new braid that i can't remember what he's telling me man we were looking at it there's a braid it's got basically the diameter of of eight like traditional eight pound power pro let's say but the stuff's 21 pound

oh easily yeah now and you remember um we used to use maxima when we used to fish a lot of salmon and steelhead in the great lakes and the rivers we would always use four pound maxima mono yeah or four pound for tippet material we'd use maximum mono and guys would point out you'd be like well maximum mono is so strong guys like you ever measure it because four pound isn't four pound

maximum mono is like, it says four, but it's thicker.

Yeah.

So do you ever take your stuff and do you take your line and put it on a machine?

Okay.

So, so when you calculate the breaking strength, it's not what the spool says.

What brand, and maybe you can't do this, whose line is most consistently off?

Yeah.

I never thought of it as like, I never thought of this just outright dishonesty.

I just, whatever.

I didn't really think about it too much, but it was just pointed out to me.

But this new braid stuff, man, it's expensive, but I just bought enough to spool a couple reels in it.

Okay, so when it first came out... I remember when it came out, and I remember the one argument I could hear against it was, dudes, I was still living in... Braid came out.

We were fishing tons of salmon and steelhead in the tributaries to the Great Lakes.

And I remember one guy, it was early enough that some guy was saying, if you get hung up, if you get your boot hung up in that braid...

You know, you're basically going to die there.

People were deathly afraid of it.

Tangle your waders up and that braid.

And you basically just had to resign yourself to slow death in the river.