Following Slider's advice to use 12 or 15lb if you don't want to tie bloodknots to 4kg line, I mail ordered 2 x 300M spools of Platypus Super 100 @ $19.95 ea from BCF. I took three rods to the beach: One rigged with Super 100 for spinning tailor with the Neptune 60g Pilchard Lure, one rigged with Super 100, rigged for bream and one rigged with Platypus Pre-test 10Kg Yellow ( to get a comparison).
Casting with the 15lb Super was exactly what I've been looking for. Not one 'throw-off' all day, and I got about the same distance that I was getting from my former rig (the 4kg thingo). The tailor weren't on but I managed just one that hit close to shore. I'm sure the 12lb would go even further, but I went a bit heavier to avoid throw offs.
The real bonus was the bream rod (the bream weren't on either). I felt sure that with such a thin line (0.27mm) that the leader would twist up in the surf conditions. But not at all, whilst in the same conditions the 10K Platypus Pre-test was doing the twist all morning.
I caught 3 medium-size bream on the Super fine (under 30cm) but they wouldn't look at the Yellow 10K Pre-test. Thought it might have been the yellow colour, which has worked in the past, so I changed the leader to clear 10K Pre-test -- still wouldn't look at it. Sometimes that's just the way things go, but not a bad innaugural test for the Super 100.

Why, you might ask, did I not want to tie bloodknots to lighter line? Well after some weeks of fiddling with these things with freezing fingers down on the beach, and after failing miserably and chucking off 5 lures in one morning (that's about $30 worth of lures), I decided that it just wasn't my 'thing'.


Yellowbeard.