More Options for Downrigger Braid: Higher Tensile, Bulk Spools, and Never-Fade Black

FINS Downrigger Braid: An American-Made Synthetic Replacement for Steel Cable

Stainless-steel downrigger cable corrodes, frays, and carries an electric charge that can put fish off before your lure ever gets there. FINS designed Downrigger Braid to solve all three — a synthetic line, American-made in Erlanger, Kentucky, engineered to run smoother and quieter than cable while holding up to the loads deep-water trolling demands.

What Makes It Different

Downrigger Braid is an 8-strand braid made from high-tenacity, ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene fibers. With no metal content, it won't kink, rust, or hum against the water the way cable does, and it spools smoothly with low memory for consistent deployment and retrieval. It's built for maximum tensile strength, now available up to 250 lb test for anglers running heavier weights. Just like FINS' Windtamer Pitch Black and Infinity braids, Downrigger's new, never-fade black color option isn't a coating — it’s introduced at fiber creation, so it won't fade or chip over time.

Who It's For

Downrigger Braid is built for freshwater and saltwater trolling anglers targeting salmon, lake trout, kokanee, striped bass, halibut, tuna, mahi-mahi, wahoo, and king mackerel. The new 500-yard bulk spool option is suited to charter captains and serious trollers who are re-rigging multiple rods or riggers at once.

FINS Downrigger Braid is available now in all pound tests, spool sizes, and colors at finsfishing.com.