fish2day You have every right to disagree with me and I'm wrong at times but Berkley told me that line has a limited shelf life much shorter than you suggest. They told me how to read the date on the spool to make sure the line is fresh. I have bought new rolls of line to find that it would break very easy and I would describe it as rotten even though it had never been out of the box. This is only my opinion from experience and talking to Berkley. I'm no expert so I'll just have to leave it at that. Thanks.