Trout Hunter Nylon Tippet

Frustration, expensive, annoying, and necessary are words that come to mind when I think about tippet. If I didn't need it, I wouldn't use it. I've been switching back and forth from 5X to 6X flourocarbon. The 6X has been a nightmare at times when my casts are not so perfect or when I am teaching someone to cast and ends up like a train wreck at the rod tip. We've all been there at least once. Our nippers quickly come out to perform neuro line surgery, snipping away the anger. Last week, I stopped at a local fly shop in Golden, CO and was buying a couple of spools of RIO tippet when the store clerk mentioned the Trout Hunter Nylon Tippet.

When I found it amongst the wall of available tippets it stood out. Every tippet spool available was suspending on a peg by the middle of the spool, this one was in a sealed bag. Trout Hunter places their tippets in this sealed bag for U.V. protection, water resistance, and to avoid deterioration while it remains on the retail shelf. This extends the life of the tippet. The nylon tippet is made of co-polymers and is coated twice for abrasion resistance and maximum knot strength where as as the flourocarbon is made of....their flourocarbon. The flourocarbon does however, have an extremely low refractive index making it nearly see through in addition to low memory. Trout Hunter goes the extra mile to ensure quality.

When I started perusing through the goodies, my eyes landed on what I had not seen before: a 1/2 size tippet! That's right, it comes in half sizes. Being that I switch from 5X to 6X made my decision easy, the 5.5X. I was so estactic to find a tippet size that fell in between my bi-polar tippet tendancies.

 

If you're looking at the picture above, you will notice the other lovely feature about this product: the amount of tippet you get is 50 meters! Most tippet comes spooled with no more than 30 meters. Trout Hunter tippet gives you the best price per length cost out of anyone. And for those who like neat spools, theirs are stackable. The one drawback I found with the spools is there is a rubber "band" holding the tippet spooled with no hole it is threaded through. This makes it difficult if you pull out too much tippet to spool back on.

The performance is great. Typical high end tippet quality perfomance. Nothing is special about tippet perfomance unless it can cast for you. No issues with memory or in my casting/presentations.

 

The nylon MSRP is at $6.95 while the flourocarbon is at $22.95. This will be my tippet choice for sure.