Leland on Airflo Miracle Braid Shooting Line
A favorite among Washington's two-handed community and Bay Area surf fishermen, Airflo Miracle Braid is a unique shooting line with a dedicated fan base. As compared with fly-line style shooting lines, Miracle Braid offers high buoyancy and virtually no detectable memory (aka, tendency to coil), which makes it a pleasure to fish with in any weather. What's more, Airflo Miracle Braid Shooting Line offers low stretch, for sensitivity and hookset power, and shoots easily, making long bombs less of a chore, no matter if you're fishing the surf or a broad tailout.
Airflo on the Airflo Miracle Braid Running Line
Airflo's Miracle Braid is popular among extreme cold-weather fishermen. Miracle Braid is easy to grip, doesn't coil in the cold and slides like an
oyster shooter. Comes in 30lb 50 yard spools. They're on Fiyar! Fiyar!
Specifications:
- Braided running line offering low stretch, super low friction, and no memory
- Excellent handling, even in cold weather
- 30lb breaking strength
- Outstanding for Skagit and Scandi style head systems
Leland on Airflo
With a huge following in their native UK and across Europe, Airflo is undoubtedly one of the preeminent names in fly line manufacturing.
Since their start in the late 1980s under UK angler Paul Burgess – when
they defined themselves through a move away from the traditional
solvent-based PVC fly line technology of the day – Airflo has stayed at
the forefront of fly line design and development, with a slew of patents to show their industry leadership. Airflo was the first firm to develop density compensation (DC) and the welded loop, which are now industry standards.
One of the largest selling points about Airflo lines is their
longevity, which has its source in the material used in manufacture:
polyurethane (PU). Like other urethanes, which are used in car
dashboards, boat paints, and car paints, PU is highly resistant to UV and chemical damage, and won’t leak solvents over time to crack as other fly lines can.
Integral to the long-lasting performance of Airflo lines is Airflo’s two-layer extrusion method, called Polyfuse XT. Utilizing a specialized extruder which is like a ‘nozzle inside a nozzle’, Airflo can seal two separate layers of polyurethane around a fly line core, and adjust the ratios of each material as the core passes out the extruder. The middle layer contains the defining elements of the line (whether microballoons, for flotation, or metal dust, for sinking ability) while the outer layer seals the line and contains all the slick-shooting properties that should be concentrated on the exterior. As a result, Airflo lines are less porous and consistently last longer.
Whether you’ve been fishing Airflo for years, or have just started to catch wind of their virtues, you should know that Airflo fly lines are hugely impressive, and Leland is thrilled to have the opportunity to carry them.
Airflo on Airflo Fly Lines
Only Airflo lines are made from UV resistant super tough polyurethane.
There are no liquids used in the manufacture of Airflo lines and
therefore they last longer than PVC lines. With dry lubricant in the
outer coating, Airflo lines stay cleaner than other lines and don’t require as much care as PVC lines.
Use an Airflo Turbo Shoot cleaner or other thin non-sticky cleaner/protector
like STP Son of a Gun. By cleaning your line you help the front of the
line float and keep friction in the guides from degrading line
smoothness. You can use any brand fly line cleaner or conditioner on any Airflo fly line. Airflo lines are hardly affected by DEET
and other chemicals that would normally ruin a fly line. You don’t have
to worry about getting insect repellant on Airflo fly lines.
Airflo on Airflo
Not happy with the PVC fly line technology of the day, Paul Burgess, a mad keen flyfisher,
who also happened to be a qualified engineer, set about changing the
process by which modern fly lines are manufactured. Moving away from the
traditional tower system, Paul began extruding fly lines with computer controlled systems that allowed for control over production accuracy previously thought impossible.
That was the late 80s. Now, over 20 years later, Airflo is the world's leading manufacturer of solvent free fly lines
and is responsible for developing a series of innovations unparalleled
by any other line manufacturer during that period. Whilst we may not
have invented the fly line, innovation has been a keystone at every stage in our development, being the originators of Polyurethane coatings, creating the first welded loops, developing low stretch cores and even the world's first density compensated fly lines.
More recently, we've developed an advanced range of fly lines with Ridged coatings that reduce surface friction and improve shootability - each breakthrough offering a truly tangible improvement, not some invisible technology developed in the minds of the marketers.
'Green' or 'Environmentally Friendly' is something all fishing companies
like to claim, and whilst we are more than happy to make you aware that
our coatings are kinder to the environment, it was originally the search for a polymer that didn't leach solvents, was unaffected by UV and ultimately just lasted longer that lead us to pursue polyurethane as an alternative to solvent based PVC.
The final result is what we believe to be the world's most advanced range of fly lines and, judging by the bandwagon we've created with our continuous stream of innovation, most of our competitors would seem to agree.
