Does anyone else run braid on their spinning gear and mono on their baitcasters?

[Boomstick]

I run lighter braid and a mono or fluoro leader as necessary on all of my spinning reels to avoid line twists, which really does work, and have mono on my baitcasters. Of course, I don't have a heavier casting rod for flipping and pitching into heavy cover or anything like that either.

 

Was just wondering if anybody else does the same thing or if I'm totally insane.

[gim]

My spinning setups are very similar with lighter braid and then a fluoro or mono leader.  However, I usually use straight braid on my bait casters mostly because I'm generally fishing in areas where cover such as weeds, logs, or docks are present so I need abrasion resistant line and straight mono just won't do.  I'm sure someone will chime in that they use bait casters with mono.

[CTBassin860]

Mono? Never heard of it.

[Boomstick]

1 minute ago, gimruis said:

My spinning setups are very similar with lighter braid and then a fluoro or mono leader.  However, I usually use straight braid on my bait casters mostly because I'm generally fishing in areas where cover such as weeds, logs, or docks are present so I need abrasion resistant line and straight mono just won't do.  I'm sure someone will chime in that they use bait casters with mono.

 

I should add that if I'm fishing in really heavy cover I will usually get out my catfish rod which has heavy braid, which is part of the reason I threw mono on the bait caster.

[tander]

You need to use whatever suits you. I use braid/fc leader on my spinning, mono on my topwater and crankbait, and FC on my worm/spinnerbait.

[EvanT123]

Yes I do the same exact thing. The stretch of mono provides some give with the faster an more powerful baitcast rods I have. The non stretch of braid adds some hook set power with the lighter an slower tipped spinning rods I use. That's my thought on it. 

[Boomstick]

17 minutes ago, EvanT123 said:

Yes I do the same exact thing. The stretch of mono provides some give with the faster an more powerful baitcast rods I have. The non stretch of braid adds some hook set power with the lighter an slower tipped spinning rods I use. That's my thought on it. 

 

That is definitely another advantage as well. My youngest kid uses a Cabela's Whuppin Stick which is a moderate action rod and his favorite lure to fish with is the crankbait so the braid counters the moderate action tip. And he often catches more fish than the rest of the group too.

[Angry John]

I am not an all or nothing kind of guy.  I have alot of YHB on my casters for running spinnerbaits/chatters small swimbaits 4.8 size and super flukes.  I crank with either 10lb YHB or braid to leader.  My jerkbaits are 10 lb YHB and topwaters are 14lb mono to braid. So many options and tools to be all one way.  My heavy setups for frogging and punching are 50-65 strait braid. No reason to use anything else in the slop...

 

Currently all my spinning rods are braid to leader.

[Lures'n'Liberty]

14 hours ago, Boomstick said:

 

I should add that if I'm fishing in really heavy cover I will usually get out my catfish rod which has heavy braid, which is part of the reason I threw mono on the bait caster.

My backup cat/carp rod is also my heavy cover bass rod, a heavy action 10' telescopic spinning rig (If I had it to buy again it would be 8') with 40# braid that is pretty much always strapped to my backpack. I run 50# braid on 10' King Kat/Baitrunner combos for my primary catfish rigs and love it, but that's pretty irrelevant to this conversation. 

[Boomstick]

2 minutes ago, Lures'n'Liberty said:

My backup cat/carp rod is also my heavy cover bass rod, a heavy action 10' telescopic spinning rig (If I had it to buy again it would be 8') with 40# braid that is pretty much always strapped to my backpack. I run 50# braid on 10' King Kat/Baitrunner combos for my primary catfish rigs and love it, but that's pretty irrelevant to this conversation. 

 

Nice! I will likely add a King Kat (maybe baitrunner, haven't yet decided) for one of the kids, great cheaper catfishing rods for the price. My setup is a Berkley Tec Cat Hunter, 8' MH and a Daiwa Regal 4000 BRI. Pretty fast action, but the rod has a great feel and is very light compared to most other cat rods (similar to a St. Croix Mojo Cat I'd say). I have 30# braid spooled on one reel currently that I've been using for heavier cover when bass fishing and for the normal heavier cover I run into, it's enough where I always get my line back. It's also adequate for the channel cats around here, I get a chance to fish larger catfish roughly once a year. It comes with a second spool and I will load that up with 65# braid when I get around to it -- I just got it a couple of weeks ago.

[Lures'n'Liberty]

2 minutes ago, Boomstick said:

 

Nice! I will likely add a King Kat (maybe baitrunner, haven't yet decided) for one of the kids, great cheaper catfishing rods for the price. My setup is a Berkley Tec Cat Hunter, 8' MH and a Daiwa Regal 4000 BRI. Pretty fast action, but the rod has a great feel and is very light compared to most other cat rods (similar to a St. Croix Mojo Cat I'd say). I have 30# braid spooled on one reel currently that I've been using for heavier cover when bass fishing and for the normal heavier cover I run into, it's enough where I always get my line back. It's also adequate for the channel cats around here, I get a chance to fish larger catfish roughly once a year. It comes with a second spool and I will load that up with 65# braid when I get around to it -- I just got it a couple of weeks ago.

King Kats are great bang for 30 bucks. 80% of my flathead chasing friends use them and the other 20% used to use them but have since upgraded to rods the rest of us can't afford (most of them have Mojo Cats). As far as the reels go, the ones that bought the salt striker combos mostly regret it and bought Okuma Avengers or Trios. I just picked up a couple of KastKing Sharky baitfeeders and would compare it to the higher end Trio or Emcast at half the price. Gotta ask, though, how can you have just one catfish rod? Here in PA, you can fish 3 rods at once, therefore I have 4 catfish rods, 3 to fish with and one in case something breaks (err, technically 7, but 3 are $19.97 off the shelf shakespeare Tiger combos from walmart bought for my girlfriend and used once, still spooled with factory 15# mono).

 

[Boomstick]

1 hour ago, Lures'n'Liberty said:

Gotta ask, though, how can you have just one catfish rod? Here in PA, you can fish 3 rods at once, therefore I have 4 catfish rods, 3 to fish with and one in case something breaks (err, technically 7, but 3 are $19.97 off the shelf shakespeare Tiger combos from walmart bought for my girlfriend and used once, still spooled with factory 15# mono).

 

 

Good question. Well we only have channel cats in New England, and I have to drive 90 minutes east or west to fish for them, so I spend most of my time bass fishing, so buying bass rod's are my priority. My oldest kid's ugly stik can also manage a typical channel as well, although isn't near a king kat.

[Lures'n'Liberty]

Just now, Boomstick said:

 

Good question. Well we only have channel cats in New England, and I have to drive 90 minutes east or west to fish for them, so I spend most of my time bass fishing, so buying bass rod's are my priority. My oldest kid's ugly stik can also manage a typical channel as well, although isn't near a king kat.

Got you there. We've got 50+ lb flatheads in my back yard and the river is about 1000' wide, so I'm usually casting a 3oz weighted slip rig with a bluegill as bait and trying to cast it a country mile. For one trip a year or building the cat/carp gear, those cheapo tiger combos don't suck. Make sure you bring as many rods as you can legally put in the water or reasonably handle the next time you make that 90 minute drive, you will get more bites that way.

[Deleted account]

Yes, but not exclusively.

[Ratherbefishing75]

I have 3 baitcaster sand 3 spinning setups and I run all braid on one bait caster 40lb and all braid in one spinning same waiter and the others are mono the ines with braid I use for throwing frogs and for heavy cover for the leavrage I need to pull the hogs out 

[Dtrombly]

I use mono on my lone spinning rod, because I use this for poppers, along with my finesse presentations. Only casting reel I have braid on is my frog reel

[bigfruits]

i have braid, FC and mono on my spinning reels and also on my BCs.

[Frenchman83]

Braid wit leader on my spinning outfits and copolymer or fluorocarbon on casting.

On 6/5/2017 at 10:28 PM, tander said:

You need to use whatever suits you. I use braid/fc leader on my spinning, mono on my topwater and crankbait, and FC on my worm/spinnerbait.

What benefits do you see with using fluorocarbon for spinner baits?

[Boomstick]

10 hours ago, Frenchman83 said:

Braid wit leader on my spinning outfits and copolymer or fluorocarbon on casting.

What benefits do you see with using fluorocarbon for spinner baits?

 

I am actually debating with myself if I should put fluorcarbon on my casting rod for spinnerbaits when I go to Canada and have a boat this week. I normally don't run fluoro since I don't own a boat and usually shore fish, but with the ability to fish deeper waters I can definitely see the benefit. On the other hand, it's probably not as big of a deal fishing cover on shore either.

 

 

[OkeechobeeAngler]

Here in S. Fl I run straight Power Pro on both spinning and casting. Saltwater setups I do use a leader. 

[bowhunter63]

Still using Berkley big game,Got a few rigged up with Flouro.Dont really care for braid.I know im old school

[JustinJ]

Mono for everything except frogging and punching. Don't use fluoro

[tcbass]

Run straighht braid on my spinning and baitcasting rods. Lighter braid for the spinning reels.