Daiwa J-Braid Grand x8 Island Blue - Braided Fishing Line w/ IZANAS Fiber

Description

Daiwa J-Braid Grand x8 Island Blue Braided Line
The Daiwa J-Braid Grand x8 Island Blue is Daiwa's new, 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.
Bright blue color that offers high visibility while also incorporating sky and water contrast.
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 strength index quite like IZANAS.
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.
Island Blue J-Braid Grand x8 is a bright blue color that offers high visibility while also incorporating sky and water contrast. 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.
PoundTest
KilogramTest
Diameter
EquivalentDiameter Mono
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