I had a terrible fishing outing yesterday, not that I didn't catch fish. For some unfathomable reason I spooled up a light duty reel with 8# mono and headed to the intra coastal waterway. I fished an area totally void of weeds, rocks or any thing that I could get hung up on. I caught 2 smaller barracuda and with the stretch I thought I was hung up on something, I wasn't, the mono took all the fight out of the fish. As a rule cuda's make a vicious strike, they don't inhale a bait and they can be incredible fighters.
On the way home I stopped at a canal and caught 7 or 8 bass, 3 of them about 18", again hardly knew I had a strike, the fight with mono was non existent. The difference for me between braid and mono is night and day, the strike and the fight are so much more amplified with braid, mono took all the fun out of it. Ist order of business, buy a new spool of braid today....
Update: I stopped by the same spot this morning and caught a few more using same size outfit but with braided line...........what a difference in ! I'm already respooled, lol.
