Fishing with Braided Line

[Yudo1]

I've always used braid with leaders except I'll use straight braid for frogs and punching.  I did switch to fluoro for weightless plastics because I wanted the bait to fall naturally and wanted the slack line sensitivity.  With treble hooked baits I loosen the drag a bit and use parabolic rods because something has to give.  On a presentation where there is tension on the line or a semi-slack line I feel the sensitivity of non-stretch braid is unparalleled IMO.

[avidone1]

I use braid often and tie it directly to the eye when doing anything on the bottom, jigs, worms etc.  but for my lighter rods that I use for topwaters and jerk baits I always use a leader.  I find the braid will wrap up when using a jerk and pause retrieve.  That's what I meant before about prop baits.  Unless I rip it and then stop long enough to reel in slack it just wraps around the prop.  I like to rip rip rip pause, or some variation of that.   can't do it without a leader

[MassYak85]

1 hour ago, Yudo1 said:

I've always used braid with leaders except I'll use straight braid for frogs and punching.  I did switch to fluoro for weightless plastics because I wanted the bait to fall naturally and wanted the slack line sensitivity.  With treble hooked baits I loosen the drag a bit and use parabolic rods because something has to give.  On a presentation where there is tension on the line or a semi-slack line I feel the sensitivity of non-stretch braid is unparalleled IMO.

Agree. For the most part it's only braid and leaders except for frogs/punching/thick vegetation, then it's straight braid. I use straight fluoro on my jig/t-rig set up for the slack line sensitivity but that's about it. If I ever get a dedicated cranking rod I might do straight copoly. 

[Dxdger30]

Holy cow, thanks for all the responses...