Does 832 Stand Up to Sudden Impact? It Might Make Your Day

[Cal]

No one chooses a line based on what would happen if you happen to bizarrely get an overhand knot in it.

And this is exactly not (pun intended) what we are testing. We ARE choosing one, very common and repeatable knot. Just because it is not a knot someone will use when attaching a piece of terminal tackle or a lure to the end of the line does not mean it is not applicable. This is the point you are missing. It is applicable because it tests the worse case scenario in ANY knotted situation - where the line is crossing over itself. And it puts the line to the test in this situation.

[scatter]

Line crosses over itself in every knot, that's pretty much the definition of a knot. I guess we're not going to see eye to eye here so I'll leave it there.

[takrat 67]

Well Cal, you did make my day, I've been a devotee of 832 for some time now, and believe that in terms of value for money, ability to hold a knot and cast well, particularly off a baitcaster, it works really well. Other lines I like are Berkely Whiplash, and an Australian product called Bionic Braid. I'm in far north Queensland Australia at the moment and about to spend 4 weeks fishing the Hinchinbrook area for Barramundi, Mangrove Jack, Fingermark and very likely Spanish Mackeral to name a few. My 3 baitcasters Chronarch, Curado and Zillion are all loaded with 30lb 832 and florocarbon leaders of 40 to 60lb attached with an Improved Albright. I have no doubt they will handle the work.
Cheers,
JD