Bought some braid??

[BubbaBassin’]

Bought some ten pound test braid, casted it for a bit, and now it breaks every cast??? Spider wire braid. Help please??

i fish soft plastics t rigged.

[CroakHunter]

10Lb is really light. Spiderwire isn't very good braid

[BubbaBassin’]

What line do you reccomend for t rigged plastics? @CroakHunter

[CroakHunter]

Spinning or casting?

[BubbaBassin’]

Casting

 

[CroakHunter]

40Lb kastking braid. 15Lb big game or trilene xl or xt

[BubbaBassin’]

I downgraded from some 20lb mono because it supposedly effected the Senko action. @CroakHunter

[CroakHunter]

20Lb mono is too thick. 10Lb braid is too thin

10Lb braid would be good for a spinning reel

[BubbaBassin’]

This work? @CroakHunter

[EGbassing]

3 minutes ago, BubbaBassin’ said:

This work? @CroakHunter

That would be a great choice.

 

Edit: I would definitely go with the trilene knot for that. It was designed just for that line. 

[CroakHunter]

Good choice. 

[chubaka]

53 minutes ago, BubbaBassin’ said:

What line do you reccomend for t rigged plastics? @CroakHunter

I would use 40lb minimum for braid on casting reels for rigged plastics. 

[813basstard]

Yes Spider Wire is to thin for me. Wind knots and the “throw it to hard knot in spool” syndrome. I believe you’ve made the right choice. Where does it break at??

[J.Vincent]

Spiderwire makes good braided line, and you shouldn't be breaking off during the cast, unless one of your line guides are cracked and that could definitely cause line breakage or maybe your knots are pulling ? 

[Bluebasser86]

Are you sure it's breaking? It sounds to me like your knot might be slipping or you have a damaged guide that is cutting your line. 10lb braid is going to break significantly higher than 10 pounds. I use 20lb on casting gear for T rigs all the time with no issues, even in sparse grass and around wood. There's some other issue, it isn't just that the line is thin. 

[BubbaBassin’]

4 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

a damaged guide

How would I go about repairing a damaged guide? Because I do hear a loud scratching noise during reeling.

[Bluebasser86]

7 minutes ago, BubbaBassin’ said:

How would I go about repairing a damaged guide? Because I do hear a loud scratching noise during reeling.

Run a Q-tip around the inside of your guides, if one of them catches and pulls fibers away from it, it's damaged and needs replaced. You can replace it yourself if you want, lots of DIY videos out there, or you can have someone replace it for you. Cost to have someone replace it will vary, it's usually around 10-20 dollars. Braid is pretty noisy coming through the guides though, so noise itself isn't a certain indicator. 

[Ariffy]

I use 30LB for everything and it has worked pretty well.

[SMITTY0045]

10 pound is really light braid, it shouldn’t be snapping tho. Either way I’d recommend bumping up to 30 or 40# braid in whatever brand you like (I’m personally a fan of PowerPro. I personally like fluorocarbon when throwing weightless baits, but that’s just me

[islandbass]

10 hours ago, BubbaBassin’ said:

How would I go about repairing a damaged guide? Because I do hear a loud scratching noise during reeling.

You have to accept that the sound you hear is a given when using braid.  There is nothing wrong when you hear that sound and your guides check out clean. It sounded horrible to me at first like a really messed up violin but after I hooked into one that same awful sound was  like music to my ears, lol. 

 

10lb braid as mentioned has a mono equivalent to 2lb test and as you know, braid doesn’t stretch much if at all. Combine the thin diameter with hard, whippy cast, the line would rather break. The line in and of itself isn’t bad. You just need to step up to at least 30 lb test. 

 

Since youre fishing senkos, 12lb mono is a decent choice. I’d try to use the lightest mono I could get away with and my conditions would allow me to go down as low as 8# and even to 6# when drop shotting. 

[NHBull]

I run 20 lb braid on my casters without any problem.....

For salad, I go 40 lb

 

IMHO , 40 lb braid for a senko is overkill 

[bhoff]

You have to look at the braid equivalent diameter for non-superlines. 50LB braid has the same line diameter as 12LB mono, 30LB braid is the same diameter as 10LB mono. So keeping up with that, 10LB braid might have the same diameter as 6LB line or so. With that given the fact that braid has zero stretch, even a backlash with a seemingly light lure could cause breakage. People usually stick to around 30-40LB braid when throwing it on baitcasters for general applications and 50+ LB test for heavier applications such as frogging. I would recommend a brand like PowerPro, because it just works.