Drennan Double Strength

The place you will find all those traditional terminal tackle items.
User avatar
Olly
Wild Carp
Posts: 9086
Joined: Sat Dec 15, 2012 12:58 pm
11
Location: Hants/Surrey/Berks borders.

Re: Drennan Double Strength

Post by Olly »

Are there 2 Drennan Supplex lines? Mono and Fluoro?

User avatar
Michael
Tench
Posts: 2754
Joined: Thu Oct 06, 2011 5:45 pm
12

Re: Drennan Double Strength

Post by Michael »

Yes, there is.....

User avatar
Duckett
Tench
Posts: 2865
Joined: Wed May 17, 2017 2:42 pm
6
Location: Stratford E15

Re: Drennan Double Strength

Post by Duckett »

After a decade away in the 1990s, I came back to coarse fishing with bait via lure fishing (sea and fresh water) so I default to using fluorocarbon for hook lengths and leaders. Some of the best Japanese ones (Sunline is readily available in the UK) are miles ahead of pre-stretched mono and European/US fluorocarbon. You need to choose and tie your knot with care though.
From "... the wilds of the Wirral, whose wayward people both God and good men have quite given up on ...".

User avatar
Troydog
Tench
Posts: 2888
Joined: Sun Jun 25, 2017 8:02 pm
6
Location: Hereford
Contact:

Re: Drennan Double Strength

Post by Troydog »

Maxima is amazing line - used it for many years and it has never let me down. I had my PB Wye carp (16lb 12) at Bishops Meadow on 2lb Maxima. OK the fish just went round in circles for twenty minutes but I still had to lift it through 12 foot of flood water to get it over the net. Yes I have a photo!
Trouble is, the fish just don't read the books......
John Harding

User avatar
Match Aerial
Arctic Char
Posts: 1661
Joined: Fri Dec 19, 2014 7:16 pm
9

Re: Drennan Double Strength

Post by Match Aerial »

Don't forget that preston reflo stuff is deliberately understated in dia. So to get a true comparison you need to keep this in mind.
Not saying its a bad line. But measure it and see for yourself. Stroft on the other hand is bang on the dia.

User avatar
Storm in a Teacup
Minnow
Posts: 37
Joined: Thu Nov 09, 2017 12:01 pm
6
Location: SW Scotland

Re: Drennan Double Strength

Post by Storm in a Teacup »

Love maxima for general fishing I have found it very abrasion resistant. DS is a lot better that it used to be (it used to snap while tying the knot) but I would only ever consider it for hook lengths as it has no stretch or abrasion resistance.

User avatar
Mark99
Perch
Posts: 414
Joined: Thu Nov 20, 2014 8:05 am
9

Re: Drennan Double Strength

Post by Mark99 »

Beresford wrote: Wed Sep 13, 2017 6:33 pm Dreadful stuff. I wouldn't risk fishing with it and am amazed it's still sold. I tried it for both trout fishing and coarse fishing. As noted above it has no resilience at all and has utterly woeful knot strength.
Agree.

User avatar
Coral Maestro
Chub
Posts: 1025
Joined: Sun Feb 02, 2020 2:58 pm
4
Location: Correze, France

Re: Drennan Double Strength

Post by Coral Maestro »

I used to call this stuff Drennan Half Strength after losing several good fish on it. I'm surprised it's still on the market when you think how many fish are trailing lengths of this line around - not a good advert for angling!
If I want a fine hook length I opt for Preston Reflo but you still have to be careful with this stuff and I try not to put shot on it. I use a short hook length straight off a micro swivel.
What do they know of fishing who know only one fish and one way to fish for him?
- Jack Hargreaves.

User avatar
Santiago
Wild Carp
Posts: 11014
Joined: Thu Mar 08, 2012 2:30 pm
12
Location: On my way to Mars
Contact:

Re: Drennan Double Strength

Post by Santiago »

Reflo is good but don't use it if there's eels in the water. Their little teeth cut through it like butter. While barbel fishing I lost quite a few of what I thought were good barbel or chub on trout pellets with Reflo line, then I luckily managed to catch an eel hooked in the jaw, and realised I had been losing big eels. The rod would bend over and then nothing, and when reeled in the line had been cut just above the hook. That was several years back and since then I use other lines as a hook link.
"....he felt the gentle touch on the line and he was happy"

Hemingway

User avatar
ReelMaker
Brown Trout
Posts: 1317
Joined: Mon Aug 27, 2012 1:11 pm
11
Location: Herts

Re: Drennan Double Strength

Post by ReelMaker »

I always use drennan floatfish but now they don't do a 2lb size so l have now got some Bayer Perlon,at 2.1 lb ,I will be trying it in June?if the bans are lifted.I hope this Perlon is as good as floatfish ,it is slightly cheaper ,I had a bad spool of Maxima so I avoid it now.Reelmaker

Post Reply

Return to “Traditional Terminal Tackle”