Anyone Using Braid For Everything?

[Nice_Bass]

I also hate braid, and it is only on my frog and musky set ups that neither get much use. I also have one punching setup that I only use part of the year, and dont really like doing that either.

[Jaheff]

Love braid, but can't stand it when it's even breezy out, let alone windy.

[SirSnookalot]

Love braid, but can't stand it when it's even breezy out, let alone windy.

I fish braid at the ocean nearly everyday, nothing heavier than 20#. If I'm using my stradics or daiwas I never get wind knots, there is no negative at all and it gets very windy here. Braid can be a nightmare if using lures than spin, like inline spinners or if you troll with certain kinds of spoons like a drone, j-spoon, clark, once the line is twisted it's too late, trash it. Only times I use mono lines are drift fishing with bait, trolling and casting for barracuda with my home made cuda tubes. I use braid 100% of the time in freshwater for every technique I employ, I've yet to have any negative.

Give me a nice breeze 15-20 mph with a good 3' chop anytime for fishing.

[0119]

I only use braid on spinning reels and only to avoid loops and the trouble from the lines twist. I dont frog since there arent any frogs left in my part of Fl. 95% of my fishing is topwater or just sub surface with flukes.

[Tokyo Tony]

I have #10 PowerPro yellow & #10 flouro leader on my spinning rigs, and #40 PP on my casting rigs with #20 leaders. On the rare occasion I fish a crankbait, I have a soft rod with #10 PP and #10 leader for that (only fish smaller cranks). Once I first fished braid, I couldn't deal with anything less sensitive.

[Ratherbfishing]

Love braid, but can't stand it when it's even breezy out, let alone windy.

You didn't specify why you don't like it in the wind but personally, I hate it in the wind because it acts like a sail and it's tough to keep a soft plastic where I want it.

[aumdb487]

Braid all the way... 8/30 pound on spinning, 12/50 pound on baitcaster. One except is rod I throw my a-rig on it's got 14/65 pound.

[wfolds]

I use braid on all my rods from Panfish to Tarpon. I always us a Seaguar fluorocarbon leader tied with a uni to uni knot. When I first started using it I found that if you use a light drag on a crankbait I was not having a problem pulling loose.

[Jaheff]

You didn't specify why you don't like it in the wind but personally, I hate it in the wind because it acts like a sail and it's tough to keep a soft plastic where I want it.

I don't like shallow water finesse fishing with braid when there is brush sticking out of the water.

One of the lakes I fish the most, we call them stick ups. Braid will get caught on at least two stick ups every cast in the wind. Where copoly,fluro,or mono won't.

I still love braid with a leader,or top shot in open or deep water.I will still continue to use braid for other ocean species.

[hatrix]

It's all I fish except for a couple rods with yo-zuri. If your not used to fishing with it then it takes some getting used to. For me it's superior to all other lines and the sensitivity on moving baits is 2nd to none. When you impart action on a bait or set the hook the no stretch make it right now and with force. It is also the best for fishing weeds. If you get fouled you can clear it much easier then other lines. Did I mention it's almost unbreakable and probably the easiest line to manage since it has no memory? If they could make a sinking version and give it slack line sensitivity all other lines would be almost obsolete.

[captanabolic]

power pro super slick 20# on my dawia px typ r and shimano cumara 6'3" rod and suffix 832 10# on shimano ci4 1000 fml and falcon bucco 6' rod..

[kjud29]

i don't use braid on my spinning set up however I use braid on both my baitcasters and use a fluorocarbon leader. I tie a double uni knot to join the lines. I never used braid for all my baitcasters till a few weeks ago(friend told me to try out the fluoro leader) and i love it.

[Busy]

I use 20# green Suffix braid on my baitcasters, never had a problem with line digging into my spools.

[james 14]

I use the Mustad Triple Grips on my cranks and they hold up well to the braid. They even make a 1x version that is a heavier guage which could stand up to quite a bit of abuse I'm sure.

[Capt.Bob]

Braid on everything, But let me explain. On my perch rods I have 6# braid, or fireline, I use either fireline braid or power pro on all of em, I use a 6 to 12 foot leader for the type of fishing I'm doing on every one of them. either Trilene Big Game for stained water, or Seaguar fluoro in clearer water, perch and bluegill 6# braid and 3 or 4# fluoro, open water or finness bass and walleye, 20-30# on baitcast reels with 6 to 12# fluoro, heavy cover timber, 20-30# with 12 to 25# fluoro, for Pike and Muskie on the 400B Calcuttas I have 65 Fireline Tracer Braid and run knot-less 36" Viscious 130# test Ball Bearing welded ring swivells and 100# Berkley cross lock snap Fluoro leaders. I have used 8 foot of 25# fluoro to the ball bearing @ the leader in very clear open water for pike and muskie and back the drag off when I feel the need, but stay away from heavy weeds when I do.

I can run 15 to 20# on my bass and walleye spinning reels and it is like 4 or 6# test in mono, I get down with less weight to do the same job, I turn the line on my reels around every other year, so my baitcaster's and spinning reel's get 4 years of use out of 120 to 150 yards of line, when I turn it around on the spool It is brand new, no memory, if you run a lighter pound leader you will never lose anything but your leader on a breakoff, Once in a while I will trim a foot or so off the main line, but very seldom, even fishing fast river rocky areas for smallies after 6 or 8 hours I usually only do this once.

I prefer 30 lbs. on my Bass size Baitcasters, except I have one Lews TP 7.1:1 that is on an Avid MLXF which is my light line clear water rigging Bass and Walleye rod that never has a leader heavier than 8 LBS test on it, and run 20# Tracer Braid on it. I have never had line dig in problems with. But I had this on one of my other Baitcast reels and it did dig in to the spool. I could run 15 to 20 foot deep div ers and once in a while that was enough pressure when ripping them the line would dig in, after I went to 30 lbs I didn't have any more problem, and it is still only 8 lbs test diameter.

Lastly I drop my rod weight to a lighter weight rod with a moderate action for crank's and spinner's for a little more forgiveness, when throwing or trolling them on Braid, but still run a 6 to 12# leader10 to 12'long, and always use a blood knot to join it to the main line. This has been used for 10 to 15 years on my St Croix Avids and Legends and has never damaged an eye on any rod. Just how I do it.