No mono, no fluoro, just braid?

[billmac]

This is inspired by the other line thread that's happening now.  Anyone just using braid? I don't mean using braid where everyone uses braid (heavy cover, topwater, etc).  I mean worms, jigs, dropshot, the whole shebang.

[FishTank]

Just topwater.  Braid to leader for jigs and worms.

[MN Fisher]

Moving baits (spinners, chatters, etc) or heavy cover - I use straight braid. Everything else is either braid-to-leader, straight FC, mono or YZH.

[Jmurphy87]

My 6’11 poison adrena mh spinning rod runs 20lb power pro max quatro on my vanford 2500. I use it with everything basically, I feel like it works for me on that setup so I use it wherever I go. Then my lews pro ti has 30 lb sunline plasma braid on it I use that for top water jigs worms. I mainly let the cover decide what I am going to bring with me though.

[DaubsNU1]

All my bait-casters have braid, and only braid. Most are 30-40lb braid...PowerPro and old Fenwick Iron Thread.

 

I fish spinner baits, jigs, t-rigged worms, cranks, ploppers, frogs, buzz-baits, power-shot, etc. with this set up.

[Mike L]

Only punchin, frogging and on top

 

 

 

Mike

[TnRiver46]

Heck no . 6 pound mono for spinning and 12 pound for bait casting

 

thick aquatic vegetation is the only time I’ve found braid gives any advantage 

[Randy Price]

I use straight braid all the time for both BC & spinning.

[Kenny Yi]

I hate shredding braid on rocks so nope

[TOXIC]

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

Heck no . 6 pound mono for spinning and 12 pound for bait casting

 

thick aquatic vegetation is the only time I’ve found braid gives any advantage 

Word.  ?

[FrankN209]

Since I've became proficient tying the fg knot, I've been using 30lb braid to 12lb yo zuri leader..

[Scott F]

All braid all the time for me. Baitcaster or spinning. I just can’t stand having stretchy lines.

[WRB]

No! 5 lb Copley Maxima UG and 7 lb FC spinning, 12 lb FC jigs and worms,11 lb Armillo bait casting.

Tom

[Bankbeater]

I have braid on my punch rig. Everything else has mono in it.

[Glenn]

5 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

thick aquatic vegetation is the only time I’ve found braid gives any advantage

^^ This ^^

 

These days, there is no single, all-purpose universal line.  I don't think I've used only one type of line on all my reels since the '90's.

[HawgHunter13]

I use braid 90% of the time for all applications except jigs

[The Maestro]

My topwater rod which also pulls double duty for the odd time I want to chuck a squarebill has mono. Everything else is straight braid. I'll run a flouro leader if I'm drop shotting but that's almost never.

[keagbassr]

11 rods in my boat today all straight braid. 

[TcRoc]

All braid but 4 rods .. my CB rod is straight Flouro , another baitcaster braid to flouro leader and 2 spinning are 15lb braid to Flouro leader. 

[PourMyOwn]

What do you 100% braid guys do when you get hung up in deep water? 

[Lead Head]

Wrap line around my pliers and pull until something gives. 

[TcRoc]

22 minutes ago, PourMyOwn said:

What do you 100% braid guys do when you get hung up in deep water? 

Break out the wench cause my palomar knots don’t break?

[Columbia Craw]

Nope

[12poundbass]

All but two are braid

[CountryboyinDC]

51 minutes ago, PourMyOwn said:

What do you 100% braid guys do when you get hung up in deep water?

In all seriousness, with 50+ lb braid, you can cut your hands up pretty badly, even 30 lb can be tough (I'm almost always with a leader).  The places I fish with the heavy braid I bring an entrenching tool (folding shovel for non-military types) or a baseball bat.  They're not necessarily just to break hung braid - they're used on any snakeheads I catch too.