Who Uses Braid for Their Top Waters and What Test?

[Brett's_daddy]

Sounds like something in the range of 30 - 50lb. braid would be a better compromise for both techniques? I do have spinning setups too but the biggest rod I have for that is a 7ft. Fenwick HMG MH/F.

[moguy1973]

18 hours ago, J Francho said:

I use Tuf-Line SuperCast 20#.  Its a coated, fused superline with a mono core.

This is also what I currently use.  When this line is done I have a spool of 40# Power Pro waiting to go on.  I use it for all topwater.

[smr913]

For walkers and poppers I use 30-40# PP. Only downside to braid is that it gets hung on the hooks easier and unlike mono you can't just shake your rod tip to fix it; you have to use your hands to unwrap the line from the hooks. I never feel like I get very good hooksets from a kayak with mono either. 

[moguy1973]

50 minutes ago, smr913 said:

For walkers and poppers I use 30-40# PP. Only downside to braid is that it gets hung on the hooks easier and unlike mono you can't just shake your rod tip to fix it; you have to use your hands to unwrap the line from the hooks. I never feel like I get very good hooksets from a kayak with mono either. 

I guess that's a good thing about using the PP slick or the stuff I'm using the TUF-Line Supercast, both of which are coated so the hooks don't grab it as easily.

[gim]

12 hours ago, Brett's_daddy said:

Let's reverse the theory...who uses Mono for frogs?

 

This is exactly what I thought when I first started reading this thread.  Does anyone actually use mono for frogs?  I'll answer that and it is a NO and there's a reason everyone uses braid - it works better.  I'll take it one step further too: I'll bet that almost everyone uses a bait caster with heavy braid for frogs.

[A-Jay]

Here's 10lb braid on spinning gear & a walking bait.  I was catching smallies last September.

A-Jay

 

[NorthE97]

Not meaning to highjack this thread but... if you're using braid for topwaters with treble hooks, say poppers and walking baits, do you use a fast action rod or moderate action rod or back off the drag to compensate for the no/little stretch braid? I wouldn't want to pull the bait away from the fish.