Does anyone have any experience with 30lb. triple fish flouro? castability and knot strength, etc...
Thanks,
Rob D.

Yes, very much so.

Here's the deal...

25lb Triple Fish fluoro is relatively thin diameter compared to other 25 monos/fluoros. I use it religiously as leader material for swimbait fishing (except with topwater). It has very little memory and does not show well in the water at all (its hard to see for fish).

The 30lb is relatively thick in diameter compared to other 30lb monos/fluoros. I've tried fishing it straight for swimbaits and find that it is so thick that it really isn't that great except with the biggest baits (which is what I used it for). It has a fair amount of memory (much more than the 25lb). The tradeoff is that the 30lb is absurdly strong and abrasion resistant. It feels a lot more like 40lb than 30lb to me.

I use the 30lb these days primarily as leader for ocean fishing. It's outstanding as leader material if you are plugging for striper on the beach around Pacifica. It's also very good as leader for rockfish when using braid as a main line. It's not much as a main line for freshwater, but if I was going for tuna I'd sure as heck spool it up.

Hope that helps some... Let me know if you have any other questions.

Thanks. I was considering using it for the bigger sinking swimbaits. For the price it seems hard to beat, that's why I was curious as to how good it is.
Thanks,
Rob D.

If you're thinking really big sinking baits like 12" or more, then I'd say yes - go for it. I'm thinking 12" Hudd or 16" Rago original generic trout, etc. Worth noting is that this line lasts really well. I had some on one of my reels for probably 15 trips without changing it.

If you're thinking about something more like a 10" stocker trout or an 8" hudd, then it's probably too thick of a line. JMO. The only time I'd consider that line for 8-10" type baits would be if I was fishing absurd cover, like Falcon Lake style where you needed to fish 4x hooks, lock drag on an Okuma 7'11" XH and pull. It's a really 'big' line.

I was only going to use it for 10" or bigger baits. I mainly use 25lb. for the hudd size baits and down to 20 at times depending on rof.

I haven't tried Triple Fish flourocarbon, but I've fished huddlestons before on straight floro (Blackwater). It's an interesting experience. The best part I thought was that your lure sinks much faster, and is easier to keep bumping along the bottom.

Cost was the only reason I didn't continue using it. But maybe with line getting cheaper.....

Fishing straight fluoro scares me due to the relative brittle-ness of the line combined with lack of stretch. I'm too afraid that a big one will hit close to the boat, I'll swing and ... snap.

I snaped off a 7 or 8lber last year in tourny using 25lb sugoi. I think the line went south on me. Broke real easy at the knot and shortly after that my 20lb. sugoi did the same thing. So I threw the sugoi in the trash. Now I'm using bps on everything, minus topwater of course with no complaints.

I recently had a shortage of 25lb triple fish, so my buddy had some 30 laying around, we spooled it up and on saturday I got 12 lb largemouth using a 10in stocker trout! It is a little thicker than the 25 and I agree with rob about the memory issue. But you can pretty much take breaking off a fish out of the equation. For sure the this will help with the bigger baits, but I don't have much experience with them. Triple Fish is the only line I will fish! If you're having trouble casting of baits or fishing in thick cover it will surely help.