Do you need backing for flouro carbon?

[Fisher0517]

I know for braid as main line you need to put mono down first so the braid doesn’t slip do you have to put mono down before spooling with flouro carbon?

[A-Jay]

Not for the same reason.

Perhaps just to save a little $$ on the FC

Few bass fishing applications require more than 1/2 or at best 3/4's of a full spool of useable mainline.

A-Jay

[Fisher0517]

14 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Not for the same reason.

Perhaps just to save a little $$ on the FC

Few bass fishing applications require more than 1/2 or at best 3/4's of a full spool of useable mainline.

A-Jay

So it isn’t needed. It doesn’t help backlash or anything right?

[WRB]

Right! Braid backing lightens the overall spool weight a few grams.

Tom

[galyonj]

15 minutes ago, WRB said:

Right! Braid backing lightens the overall spool weight a few grams.

Tom

 

Which, we should underscore, will have no practical value at this point for  @Fisher0517, and he would be best served by spooling his reel with one of the low-cost, lower-memory line options suggested previously.

 

OP, if you spool with fluoro, I want you to be sure to come back here and tell us how much fun it was to cut $20 worth of line off of a $50 baitcaster once you've blown it up and kinked it to ****.

 

[huZZah]

33 minutes ago, Fisher0517 said:

So it isn’t needed. It doesn’t help backlash or anything right?

Nope. Cheap backing just saves your expensive line. 
 

I don’t use backing on my floro, but I’m bank only and that allow me to change it to another spool like braid and keep using it. 
 

Each to their own. 

[WRB]

7 minutes ago, galyonj said:

 

Which, we should underscore, will have no practical value at this point for  @Fisher0517, and he would be best served by spooling his reel with one of the low-cost, lower-memory line options suggested previously.

 

OP, if you spool with fluoro, I want you to be sure to come back here and tell us how much fun it was to cut $20 worth of line off of a $50 baitcaster once you've blown it up and kinked it to ****.

 

Yep, learn to cast your bait casting reel with mono line like Berkeley 12# Big Game, excellent all around bass fishing line. 

Tom

[Fisher0517]

1 minute ago, WRB said:

Yep, learn to cast your bait casting reel with mono line like Berkeley 12# Big Game, excellent all around bass fishing line. 

Tom

I have 17 pound mono is that better? I thought flouro carbon was better 

[A-Jay]

17 minutes ago, Fisher0517 said:

I have 17 pound mono is that better? I thought flouro carbon was better 

To learn with, yes.

And backing plays no role in the casting reel spool over run deal. 

At least not in my world.

Good Luck 

A-Jay 

[Deephaven]

Flouro sucks to learn with.  Just like throwing money in the hole in the bottom of your boat.  

[Kenny Yi]

Trying to learn how to cast a baitcaster with fluoro is like trying to learn how to drive at 16 years old with a ferrari, not like it can't be done but that's a lot of money and unknown variables at risk.  Use that 17# mono (in comparison, it could be the 10 year old civic) just in case a bad backlash or any other bad thing happens, the cost isn't so bad.

[FishTank]

Always back my reels with mono> that way I can stretch the FC over two spools depending on the reel and the lb. test of line. 

[E-rude dude]

It saves money if you buy big 1000 yrd spools.

[Lead Head]

Keep in mind, if you backlash and kink mono, it will still retain much of its strength. If you backlash and kink floro, it will fail at the kink very easily. Without experience, it is VERY difficult to pick out a backlash and not kink your line (often times it is difficult or impossible even when experienced).

 

This is the reason everyone is suggesting you use mono starting out. People who start with floro usually end up very frustrated because of backlashes leading to line failure.

 

This is all assuming the backlash isn't so severe you have to cut all your line out.

 

In my experience, backing is only a must with braid. 

[DogBone_384]

10 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Perhaps just to save a little $$ on the FC

Same here. 

[LrgmouthShad]

18 hours ago, Kenny Yi said:

Trying to learn how to cast a baitcaster with fluoro is like trying to learn how to drive at 16 years old with a ferrari, not like it can't be done but that's a lot of money and unknown variables at risk.  Use that 17# mono (in comparison, it could be the 10 year old civic) just in case a bad backlash or any other bad thing happens, the cost isn't so bad.

Straight fluorocarbon scares me. I’m terrified of it. If it was between fluoro on a baitcaster and spinning reel with anything, I’m taking the spinning reel.

[fishwizzard]

I back most all my fluorocarbon reels with braid, usually about 1/2 the spool capacity.  In addition to lightening up the spool, this makes me far more inclined to replace the fluoro more often then try to ride it out with line that I know has been through "an event".  On some of my finesse casters I run close to 3/4 backing as lighter fluoros get damaged very very easily and really want frequent replacement.  

[MN Fisher]

Do you need backing? No

Is it a good idea? Yes

 

I back all my lines - 10# Big Game on my BCs, 6# Elite on my spinners - and only put 65-70yds of mainline on. That way I can get 3 'fills' from a 200yd source-spool.

[Team9nine]

5 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

Do you need backing? No

Is it a good idea? Yes

 

I back all my lines - 10# Big Game on my BCs, and only put 65-70yds of mainline on. That way I can get 3 'fills' from a 200yd source-spool.

 

Agree with pretty much all of the above (quoted and other replies). 

 

Learn to cast on mono (nylon/copoly) first, then when you get good, change to flouro to fish with as appropriate. I have mono backing on all my baitcasters as MN Fisher details above. The only difference is that I go minimum 75 yds, but prefer 90-100 yds per reel, so I get slightly less mileage out of larger spool.