Line for deep diving cranks, 3/8-1/2oz jigs, spinnerbaits and chatterbaits

[WRB]

Sunline Deifer Armillo Nylon 13 lb for a state of the art mono or Big Game 12 lb will work for all your presentations noted.

The reason braids floats is it's braid with very high surface tension and air content. Bass are rarely line shy fish why do you think a transparent braid would be a panacea line? Braided transparent Nylon line was popular back in the 50's.

Tom

[Airman4754]

12lb CXX. You can straighten out the hook on your chatter bait with it.

[Tim Kelly]

9 hours ago, RoLo said:

 

Food For Thought:

 

Braid has a specific gravity of 0.97, in other words, braid weighs only 3% less than water.

As a result, its more accurate to think of braid as neutrally buoyant line,

rather than high-floating line. When you combine neutrally buoyant line with a very thin diameter,

you've got a line that cuts through water just as it cuts through weeds.

When a lure is allowed to freefall to the bottom, a lure tied to fluorocarbon will make bottom contact

slightly ahead of a lure tied to braid.

 

On the other hand, as soon as you move the lure forward, water-resistance supersedes the influence

of specific gravity. When a lure is retrieved or trolled, the lure tied to polyethylene braid

is going to run deeper than the same lure tied to fluorocarbon.
This is due to the water-resistance generated by fluorocarbon's obese diameter,

which handily overrides any difference in specific gravity.

 

Roger

 

 

 

 

Absolutely spot on. One caveat to think about though is that if you use braid for slow slack line presentation it's tendency to float will give a very different direction of pull to a flurocarbon line in the same situation. Sometimes this is a disadvantage, sometimes an advantage. The fluoro will be a much more direct or possibly even downwards movement where the braid will tend to lift a bait off the bottom more.