re: Things you buy cheap

On the reels that I use primarily, I probably replace once a year...MAYBE. But I brought a bunch of reels with me to GI, and I promise you some of them had 3-5 yr old PP on them...and were fine. If anything, I cut off the first 10-15 feet and went with it.

I've even heard of people unspooling it, and then respooling it backwards. IOW, what used to be buried on the spool is now what they tie the hook to, and vice versa. If you think about it, you can put so much more PP on a reel than mono. If you get into the spool a little bit to the 'unused' portion, it's still dark green and glossy...perfectly fine. It doesn't just 'go bad'.