SHAKESPEARE CAJUN RED(herring?) LINE.

So I see's the commercial: "Invisible, superior abrasion resistance, tough, strong, huma-huma-shake-shake". So we buys some, and we be sure we gets the tough stuff, the one labelled high abrasion, and not the "real good casting stuff". So we spools it up on our cat rods, and offs we go. Well, it ain't abrasion resistant, and 8 lbs cats are breaking my 20 pound test red whoppey line. I do agree it disappears. Its easy enough to tie knots, I use mainly Palomars, but the dang line seems to break at the knots. Stren don't, Big Game don't. So ya get a little hung up on the bottom, and grab the line and give her a good tug. Not an eyeball straining, muscle twitching grunt, but just a good firm pull, and POP, goes the red weasel line, breaks quite easy bloke. Do the same with Big Game, same 20 lb test, and I can strain myself, nearly get a hernia, tear rips thru my gloves, drag up dead trees, and it still don't break. And for abrasion resistance, while fishing pea gravel, it sheds like my border collie. Big Game gets drug over steel dock cables, thru rocks, and over tree limbs and never quivers. This red stuff shreds, it seems to me if it even gets close to a rock.

So tell me, oh great and powerful masters of fishing, is it just me, or dowst this thine of the Cajun severely stink? Did I just get a bad batch, or have all the fish equipped themselves with wire cutters since I spooled up?

Funny how red line disappears but we love the kick about red hooks so what id the deal read on the back of that package and see what it says about red stuff and fish..............

I also tried the red line, and had the same problem with it breaking very easy. The vanishing part sold me on it also, but when it breaks so easy, I did not see the advantage.

Never used the cajun line but I concur on big game. I use 12 lb big game on some of my casters and about bust a nut try to break it on a snag. I use 20 lb on my flippin outfit and I have straightened out "non-aberdeen" stout hooks trying to break off a snag. That stuff is incredible.

kc

Here is the skinny on that Cajun' line....

Its crap.

My brother tried the stuff based upon the invisibility claims made by the manufacturer. He bought a couple of spools to be exact, and all of it broke faster than a Katrina evacuee spending their government check at a liquor store. I don't know if it is a defect in the manufacturing process or if it is inherent to the physical properties of the line itself, but all of it was brittle and quick to separate itself from a hook, regardless of the type of knot tied.

As for the visibility claims.... The only advantage of the red line is that it disappears at a more shallow depth than other colors. I think its around 15' or so (depending on light levels and water clarity). In anything shallower than 15' red is more visible than anything else. Thus the contradictory statements about red line and red hooks. In shallow water a red hook is plainly visible and might actually evoke a strike, but the red line is also highly visible, thereby discouraging a strike.

So.... if you are fishing deep, give the Cajun' stuff a try, if you are willing to take the probable chance of something, anything, breaking your line. But if you are fishing shallow, ditch the Cajun' stuff and opt for some real line and tie on a red hook.


Personally, I don't use either. Never wanted to try the Cajun' stuff and never wanted to shell out the extra bucks for red hooks. KISS..... Keep It Simple Stupid....

Keep on Chuckin'

Personally, I like the stuff. I use it only on my light downrigger rods though. Plenty of KY trout and lake erie walleyes caught on 10lb test and no probs so far.

Mike(aka Boatnut)