Nylon thread can withstand the fish, but not the sun and heat

On what, I wonder, did our distant and not so distant ancestors fish until the kapron thread was invented? Letters, drawings and annals testify that in different ways. Of course, the first thing used was the material: animal veins, plant fibers. They also caught on a fishing line twisted from horsehair (as evidenced by records from the 17th century). For a long time, flax and silk were out of competition. The nylon synthesized in 1930 was the first to eclipse everyone, but not for long. Already in the late 50's kapron forever toppled him from the fishing podium.

Capron thread is made of polymer pellets that melt in a special furnace to a viscous mass. The latter is forced through the size filters and stretched into the thread while cooling. The article is then wound on industrial bobbins that can accommodate many kilometers of kapron thread. The composition of granules and various additives in the alloy is the main secret of the manufacturer. Precise calibration of the thread diameter during manufacturing is provided by computers.

But the thread of kapron fishing is not so simple in manufacturing, as it seems, because its characteristics can not be universal for different types of fishing. If you make an emphasis on the strength of a fishing line, it is the best for a fly fishing rod and leashes. But its rigidity and "memory" (strong residual deformation) make a strong line unsuitable for spinning. It will go badly off the coil and constantly curl up into a spiral. In addition, its strength at the nodes is significantly reduced, which leads to a rupture.

If the line is too soft, any leash made of it will turn into a nightmare for the fisherman: it will confuse everything that is possible. And with the cutting after a long casting problem. But when ice fishing, if the bottom is shallow, it is better to find no fishing lines.

Having lost the hope that the kapron thread will become universal, the producers have focused on specialization. Lines for winter fishing have good longitudinal stretching and are not afraid of low temperatures. But for the float or bottom fishing rod in the calculation for long casts, they are made "sinking". Out of the situation and in the case of spinning: an ideally smooth and hard surface helps the line to glide along the rings well.

Alas, the nylon thread for fishing is made of polymer, which, like many chemical products, is not eternal. The polymer line is painfully sensitive to ultraviolet rays (and generally to solar rays), high temperatures and water. The latter, though slowly, absorbs, which can not but affect its properties. If the capron line is not protected, it dries, cracks and eventually breaks with the ease of a rotten thread. Since the nylon thread is wound on the spool, then, shrinking, it traps the lower coils upper, destroying them together with a motovillian or a drum. All attempts by manufacturers to get rid of these shortcomings of the polymer thread have so far been unsuccessful.

In order to store the nylon line for a long time, it is better to rewind it to a separate motovillian, but beforehand rub it with glycerin, wrap it in polyethylene or fat paper and store it in a damp cool and dark place.