Backing: What's your favorite?favorite weight?favorite color?and why?

[Lonewolve]

What is your favorite Backing?i figured we had all asked whats our favorite this or that.What about backing?what say you?
Mine is Cortland Micron,white , or Chartreuse, i like 20 lb. Never had any issues. I have tried Sci Angler didn't care for it their Chartreuse bled into a few lines, Cortland never has for me.
Tight Wraps & Tight Lines
Rick Wallace

 

[JackM]

I have to answer this way, Rick. Who cares? I have never had an issue of backing being of insuffient quality. I laugh when I see backing being advertised. Really? Other than, say, in saltwater or other big-game angling where the backing is really expected to act as a running line, I would not concern myself with it.

When people talk about being "into their backing" with normal trout or even the average Erie Steelhead, my thoughts are, in this order:

1. Tippet too light;
2. Drag too loose (maybe as consequence of 1 above);
3. Played improperly;
4. Cast was too long to begin with;
5. Etc.

So, for someone of my mentality, backing is irrelevant as long as it is there and the knot is sound.

 

[Deuterium]

I have a few identical reels that are loaded with different weight lines, but all the lines are same color. I use different color backing to distinguish between the line weights at a glance. I don't really care about the specific color, just that they are different for each line weight.

 

[bikerfish]

cortland white, cause it was on sale!

 

[gfen]

JackM wrote:
4. Cast was too long to begin with;

No way. Any fish worthy enough to put you into backing after a hero cast that he took the fly on isn't too long.

Everything else you said, though, yeah. 100%.

 

[RowJimmy]

I use orange super thin 30lb backing it most certainly helps me catch more fish. Stockies love it.

 

[Shebop]

/blank stare/

 

[jdaddy]

Shebop wrote:
/blank stare/

Yup.

You must have missed the thread in swap forum looking for backing.

 

[thetonyage]

ive got some spiderwire 20lb braided line in camouflage on my one reel as backing, i lose the reel a lot cause its s hard to see now

 

[Lonewolve]

just figured id make some conversation ,this was a subject i didn't noticed mentioned all that much, I do however get to see backing from time to time on the Upper Delaware, The Lehigh River, Saltwater, and also Great Lakes tribs {at times}.sorry if some were offended.
Tight Wraps & Tight Lines
Rick Wallace
P.S. im a confirmed Cortland Micron guy 20 lb

 

[JackM]

There was no offense, Lonewolf, just some perplexity expressed because most of us never see our backing. I just was adding a twist early as I expected without the opinion I expressed being made, your thread was likely to die a Lone-ly death.

 

[pete41]

Since I used shooting heads and mono running line,I never came close to seeing backing either so I was with Jm on this.Want to see one of garys hero casts.those sunnies must get big up there.

 

[jayL]

+1 for it doesn't matter.