Product Description
Features:
- The Daiwa J-Braid Grand x8 Gray Light is state-of-the-art braided line made with IZANAS fiber.
- Extremely strong and abrasion-resistant, yet soft, supple, and easy-to-spool too.
- 8-carrier construction.
- Light gray color that's visible in low light, but easily blends into the water color spectrum once submerged.
- Available in 150 and 300 yard spools in test strengths ranging from 6 pound to 80 pound.
The ultimate new braid in the J-Braid family, Daiwa J-Braid Grand x8 is some of the strongest and most abrasion-resistant 8-carrier braided fishing line ever put on the market. Yet, despite its durability, J-Braid Grand x8 is also extremely soft, supple, and easy-to-spool.
How is fishing line with such remarkable characteristics possible? J-Braid Grand x8 is spun with IZANAS, a new, state-of-the-art, high-modulus fiber that is leaps and bounds stronger than any other fiber material on the market. Now, you may be asking yourself: "Hey, doesn't every fishing line claim to be the strongest, most supple line out there? How is this stuff any different?" And you wouldn't be wrong for wondering. Many a fishing line company has made such a claim with little, if any, evidence to support it. But the fine folks at Daiwa don't play like that: when they make a claim, they stick by it and back it up. And that's why in the graph below you can see that, when compared with other fiber materials on the market, nothing exhibits a high strength index quite like IZANAS.
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Source: Toyobo Industrial Materials, 2018
It's roughly four times stronger than polyester nylon (what most monofilament is made of), twice as strong as fluorocarbon, and is even stronger than aramid, a class of military- and aerospace-grade fibers that includes Kevlar (aka the stuff bulletproof vests are made of), among others.
Gray Light J-Braid Grand x8 is a light gray color that's visible in low light, but easily blends into the water color spectrum once submerged. Available in 150 and 300 yard spools in test strengths ranging from 6 pound to 80 pound. See table below for full details on test strength and line diameter.
Pound Test | Kilogram Test | Diameter | Equivalent Diameter Mono | |
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Inches | Millimeters | |||
6 | 3 | 0.003 | 0.1 | 1.5 lb. Test |
8 | 3.8 | 0.005 | 0.13 | 2 lb. Test |
10 | 4.8 | 0.006 | 0.15 | 2.5 lb. Test |
15 | 7 | 0.007 | 0.19 | 4 lb. Test |
20 | 9.5 | 0.009 | 0.23 | 6 lb. Test |
30 | 14 | 0.011 | 0.28 | 8 lb. Test |
40 | 19 | 0.013 | 0.32 | 10 lb. Test |
50 | 23 | 0.014 | 0.36 | 12 lb. Test |
65 | 30 | 0.016 | 0.41 | 16 lb. Test |
80 | 38 | 0.017 | 0.43 | 20 lb. Test |
100 | 48 | 0.02 | 0.5 | 25 lb. Test |
120 | 57 | 0.022 | 0.55 | 30 lb. Test |