salmicropterus Posted March 21, 2011 Posted March 21, 2011 Watched the coverage of the tournament at Clewiston and a couple questions came out. They kept mentioning line choice as being 12# flourocarbon fishing even lures like the Big EZ. Only Brandon was shown using 80# braid. Am I crazy but it's hard to imagine anyone fishing heavy cover at Okeechobee fishing with 12# flouro. I fished with Glenn Browne on Thursday and Bobby Lane on Friday and they were braiding it all the way. I meant to ask Glenn what he was using with the Devil's Horse but I was too busy netting has 4s and 5s all day LOL. What do you all think if you saw the coverage? Quote
Super User RoLo Posted March 22, 2011 Super User Posted March 22, 2011 I did not see the coverage, but I did read yours. I have spools of fluorocarbon that mark time in my den drawer, but like yourself and Bobby Lane, it would be braid all day. Roger Quote
evrgladesbasser Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 Yet another reason not to beleive everything you see on TV! Yea 12lb flouro wouldn't last long on Lake O unless they were fishing the rim canals, and even then..... Quote
GLADES Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 Would there be any advantage of using a fluorocarbon leader with braid? I was thinking about giving it a try. Quote
shallow thinker Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 I saw the coverage (and followed the day by day reports on flw.com). While I don't remember who made the comment of fluorocarbon it could be like what the BASS Elite guys were doing up in Palaka. Guys using swimbaits and topwater as a search tool used braid. So did those flipping and pitching into the slop. In those cases you have rip the fish out of the slop and braid is the ticket. Sight fishing bedding fish is where they were downsizing to 8 lb flouro. If you look at what happened at both Toho and the St John's many of them used finesse techniques on the bedding bass. It has to take nerves of steel to look at a 10 pounder and try to wrestle it away from cover using that light line. Quote
SoFl-native Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 Watched the coverage of the tournament at Clewiston and a couple questions came out. They kept mentioning line choice as being 12# flourocarbon fishing even lures like the Big EZ. Only Brandon was shown using 80# braid. Am I crazy but it's hard to imagine anyone fishing heavy cover at Okeechobee fishing with 12# flouro. I fished with Glenn Browne on Thursday and Bobby Lane on Friday and they were braiding it all the way. I meant to ask Glenn what he was using with the Devil's Horse but I was too busy netting has 4s and 5s all day LOL. What do you all think if you saw the coverage? I think some of the bed fishing guys were fishing 12# FC in the really clear water but that was the exception instead of the rule. All those guys flipping were using braid. Andy Morgan loosing mulitple pigs was heart breaking. All in all FLW coverage is poor IMO. A lot of mis-information and too little fishing. Quote
Fishing Cowgirl Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 I see the Pro's holding out this bait or that, and it's something like a dark colored sweet beaver./otter. but in one section of footage, it shows used WHITE or light colored lures scattered all over the deck. (I know it is so you can see the bait dissappear when the fish eats it. That's why I have pink.. honest.. really.. before I got a pair of Costa's I couldn't see my line jump or even my line) 8-) Stuff like they are flipping in? Definetly braid. Quote
salmicropterus Posted March 22, 2011 Author Posted March 22, 2011 Would there be any advantage of using a fluorocarbon leader with braid? I was thinking about giving it a try. I do that with my 10-12" worm rig. I use 20-25#flouro with about an 18" leader and it works pretty good for me particularly in clearer water. My biggest fish at "O" have been caught dragging that rig around on hard bottoms Quote
GLADES Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 Would there be any advantage of using a fluorocarbon leader with braid? I was thinking about giving it a try. I do that with my 10-12" worm rig. I use 20-25#flouro with about an 18" leader and it works pretty good for me particularly in clearer water. My biggest fish at "O" have been caught dragging that rig around on hard bottoms Thanks Sal Quote
Super User South FLA Posted March 23, 2011 Super User Posted March 23, 2011 Watched the coverage of the tournament at Clewiston and a couple questions came out. They kept mentioning line choice as being 12# flourocarbon fishing even lures like the Big EZ. Only Brandon was shown using 80# braid. Am I crazy but it's hard to imagine anyone fishing heavy cover at Okeechobee fishing with 12# flouro. I fished with Glenn Browne on Thursday and Bobby Lane on Friday and they were braiding it all the way. I meant to ask Glenn what he was using with the Devil's Horse but I was too busy netting has 4s and 5s all day LOL. What do you all think if you saw the coverage? What channel carried the coverage? Is there a re-run? Quote
salmicropterus Posted March 23, 2011 Author Posted March 23, 2011 Watched the coverage of the tournament at Clewiston and a couple questions came out. They kept mentioning line choice as being 12# flourocarbon fishing even lures like the Big EZ. Only Brandon was shown using 80# braid. Am I crazy but it's hard to imagine anyone fishing heavy cover at Okeechobee fishing with 12# flouro. I fished with Glenn Browne on Thursday and Bobby Lane on Friday and they were braiding it all the way. I meant to ask Glenn what he was using with the Devil's Horse but I was too busy netting has 4s and 5s all day LOL. What do you all think if you saw the coverage? What channel carried the coverage? Is there a re-run? I think FLW is on Versus and I'm sure there will be re-runs but can't say actual dates for sure Quote
Super User SoFlaBassAddict Posted March 23, 2011 Super User Posted March 23, 2011 http://www.flwoutdoors.com/flwondemand.cfm Click on it on the left hand side of the viewing window. It's the second one down right now. The put all of the FLW shows on the website shortly after they air on Versus. Quote
GLADES Posted March 24, 2011 Posted March 24, 2011 I just finished watching..just awesome. Thanks for the link Eric. Quote
Super User SoFlaBassAddict Posted March 25, 2011 Super User Posted March 25, 2011 No problem. Anytime. Quote
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