When I lost a steelhead due to a broken line, it got me thinking about the process of finding just the right line to use for bobber and jig fishing. Of course, my brother Rick and I started with just plain monofilament, but it sank and didn’t mend worth a darn. Then we started using Power Pro. It worked much better and in the Hi Vis yellow color was easy to see. It would lose its buoyancy after a while, though. Then Stren came out with Microfuse. This line floated, didn’t get waterlogged and the Glacier Blue color made it visible in the flat light of winter. Yea! We immediately filled all our reels with this stuff and were happy about it. Then Stren stopped making the line. It was originally intended for use with bait casting reels, not spinning reels and the bait caster guys didn’t like it. We scrambled to buy as much as we could, and I still have some partial spools I have hoarded. The next best thing that works well is Berkley Nanofil. This stuff casts great, floats and mends well. It also doesn’t fray as easily as Microfuse, which was my problem the other day.