Some feedback from prior posts...

I had mentioned that drag was really sticky on my Induron 250 (which I also mistakenly called a 300 earlier because it looks like a 300 size reel). So I took it apart and dried out the drag washers, which definitely had some kind of light oil on them. After that the drag was much much improved, but I still wouldn't rate it as great because the startup on it just isn't very smooth. You have to pull to a certain tension before it will release and then start playing out the line. Once it gets going it's decent, but I guess I'm spoiled on the dartanium washer. I may try some drag grease on the washers just to see if it is better or not but that will be another night.

I had a chance to get some casts in with the Triple Fish Bully Braid in 50lb. It fished pretty good and I feel more confident in it than the 65 Power Pro that I've tried in the past as far as breaking off on rocks. It does like to stick in the reel if you get snagged and then go to make a cast which can be annoying when you forget that it might happen. It seems like with braid in general you have to really whip the cast out, and I guess I just make a lot of soft pitches and lazy casts or something with mono because braid throws off my rythm. Anyway, it's going to stay on my reel a while longer for frogging and stuff and we'll continue to see how it goes. At least my paranoia of busting off has been somewhat diminished.

The other reel that's gotten a lot of use for me lately throwing 10" stocker trout and 9.5" Rago Live Trout Softbait has been the 400TE with straight 30lb Triple Fish Florocarbon on it. I was very anxious to see how straight floro would work for swimbaits and overall I'd rate the line an 8 out 10. The only reason it doesn't get a 10 is because it doesn't cast that great. It doesn't have memory, but it wants to sort of loosen up on the spool when you cast into the wind. When you cast downwind and the lure is sucking the line off the reel, it feels totally normal. The overall durability of the line is awesome and you can just about lock your drag on any bass that swims with 30lb. The real fun would be to take it out tuna fishing :) I suspect the 25 would cast better but it still may have the loosening problem on the cast. So as hopeful as I was, I can't say it's the be-all end-all of swimbait line but it's pretty legit and it's staying on the reel.