Braided Line-Dream Lake Al

[BassCats]

Why is braided line not allowed at dream lake alabama?

[dodgeguy]

that's ridiculous if it's true.

[Jrob78]

From Dream Lake's website

 

The main reason Dream Lake remains one of the top trophy bass fisheries is because  we have learned over the years how to manage a catch and release program that ensures not only your enjoyment of catching numbers and quality, but having great catch rates week after week.  Our primary rules are easy to follow and are designed to ensure a successful trip 1) artificial bait only 2) no wide gap hooks 3) no braided line or fire wire 4) no sinking soft plastic baits (example: Sinko’s) 5) no Alabama rigs 6) no Carolina rigs and 7) no leaders.

It's a private fishing and hunting lodge, they can make whatever rules they want.  I don't know their reasoning behind no braid but it is a trophy lake that people pay a lot of money to fish at.

[gravestone]

When I live on LongIsland, NY most of the partyboats {AKA driftboats} didn't allow braidlines on their boats.

[War Eagle 44]

I fished there once around 5 or 6 years ago. The owner (at that time, it's since changed hands) told me that it was due to fish break offs. There are actually two different Dream Lakes on the property, both are absolutely filled with wood cover. He said he initially allowed braid but had to many customers complain about breaking off big fish in the wood cover (like he was somehow responsible for their fishing mistake). He also said the bigger fish, 8 pounds on up, had really sharp rough "teeth" and he had personally had quite a few of them cut his braid while hooked. Now I'm not in a 100% agreement with all that but he was a really really nice older fella and I just can't see him making all that up.  

 

While I was there the current lake record was 14 pounds and change, he offered a $1,000 cash prize on the spot if you broke it. He strongly favored P-Line CXX, so much so that he even had one of those knot machines in house and would be happy to test any line you wanted him to against the CXX. He also owned a tackle shop by the way so that's where he said he got the line strength machine. I was already using CXX well before visiting Dream Lake but if I hadn't I would have after seeing all the tests he did for us the first night. I had just picked up some Sufix Siege to try while there so I got him to run it against the CXX in 20 and 25 # tests. It wasn't pretty for the Sufix, way to much stretch when compared to CXX and it wasn't as strong.

 

Also you can't (or couldn't) use any EWG hooks, only offset round bends. Sorry I got way off track there, that's just the explanation he gave me when I visited.