I am pretty damn lost at this point.

The problem is my 25lb line keeps breaking and its costing me fish and expensive lures. So far I've lost a Lunker Punker and a R2S Rover that I bought as a temporary replacement for the Punker.

The series of events that has me confused goes something like this.

I was throwing the Punker and got slammed by a striper upon setting the hook the line snapped about 1.5 inches from the snap. Luckily the fish didn't get hooked and the got the Punker back as it was 8 feet from shore. This was the VERY first cast of the day and I had just stripped off 5 feet of line and retied when this happened. So i stripped off another 5 or 6 feet of line and tied on another snap and went to casting. This is when a 10.3lb striper hit as I was pulling it on shore my line snapped AGAIN. I jumped on and straddled the striper and got my Punker back before releasing the fish. Maybe a half hour later after retying I got another hit on the Punker and within 10 seconds of having the fish on my line snapped this time the fish took it as a souvenir

At this point I stopped using the reel and took all the line off it right then and there. Using my other rod that day with the same brand, lb test, hell off the same larger spool I managed to get 5 more stripers from 10-16.1lbs in the next few hours with NO problems.

When I got home paranoid as all hell I stripped all 3 swimbait reels and spooled with fresh 25 lb test. Yes the same brand that had the breakage issues but also the same that caught me the other 5 stripers and many more over the last year.

So I went out a few days later and didnt get anything. Two days after that maybe 10 casts into the morning I get annihilated on the R2S Rover and within 10 seconds the damn line broke again. Fresh 25 lb test and bye bye lure. So I grab the other rod that hasn't had line breakage issues and was able to pull a 10 lb striper and a 7.2 lb largemouth with no issues.

I don't know what to do I am paranoid about throwing my favorite combo. The line has basically broke the last 4 times I have had a fish on. Yet basically the line from the same filler spool on a different combo hasn't had one single issue. The rod and reel look fine no noticeable crack or chips on the guides.... I am at a complete loss for why this is happening.

Sorry for the novel... any suggestions??? The obvious one I guess is use a different line. This is however the first time I ever had problems with it though....

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Pretending to be a swimbait fisherman since 2001.