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grizfamily 11 years ago
#1667

Had 30 lb mono on a conventional reel for salt water. 3 weeks ago I went to 50 lb braid so I could land bigger fish. so far haven't hooked up at all. It doesn't cast as far as mono and it seems like it breaks easier than the 30 lb mono I had on previously. I rinse all of my gear with warm fresh water. Does anyone have any insight as to why I might be having these problems?

Rex Ursus 11 years ago
#1669

I use spiderwire stealth braid. 50pound. I never rinse it and abuse the hell out of it. I have no problems. If anything it is too strong for all but the largest halibut. I also use the 50lb for downrigging line and it works great. No drag. The best line I ever bought.

grizfamily 11 years ago
#1775

Went back to mono been catching ever since. Thanks.

markt 11 years ago
#1784

I think braided line is only really useful if you use lures or soft baits so that you don't have any stretch and can feel the lure at the bottom.

For bait fishing mono is probably a better choice.

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
booyah 11 years ago
#1788

I have used POWERPRO braid for a few years now and have never had any issues other than I think the fish see it easier because you dont seem to get as many bites on it. However that said, my experience is that you cant, litterally you cannot break this line. There are two things you must watch for on braided line. The first is that it must be wound tight onto the spool or one of two things will happen,your line will spin over the spool or you will get poor casting as the physical charactoristics of the braid are much different than the mono. It is a softer line and has much different action as it goes through the eyes of the rod on casting. It must be a tight windup. The other thing is that when you tie a knot with braid like on terminal tackle hooks and swivels you must insure that the knot is very tight and has no play because braid is a slicker surface line. At some point mono will pinch onto itself an in a knot it will eventually bite down onto itself. Braids will just slide undone under pulling pressure until the tag or loose end comes through the knot and will just come untied. If you watch out for those two things you should be able to land all but the toothiest critters out there, GOOD LUCK FISHING !
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moecats 11 years ago
#1808

I use 20 lb power pro and cus when it gets snagged. Very hard to break. I use a palomar knot with braid. With mono, I use an improved clinch but it will pull out with braid. I also use either a mono or floro leader if I'm useing bait. Artificial usually gets tied straight to the braid.

hu1john 11 years ago
#1815

my problem with braided lines is that i always got tangled lines during carting on casting reels on doing surf fishing.. every cast i made was awful i have to be watchful with every movement from the reel second thing is braided lines means less bites, fishes seem to know that a line is with the bait..toughness no comment, lightness, cast distance, no comment now i switched to mono line..BTW is use climax limes braided or mono. GODD LUCK to fishing mates...

Saugmon 11 years ago
#1827

Braids have their niche.I've been using spiderwire when it was still in it's infancy.A buddy of mine took me up to lake erie for some walleye trolling.Spiderwire along with linecounters and the revolution began.It'll last until you basically cut it short enough to reduce your casting.

Walleye are light biters.They'll chomp on the lure and swim toward you so they're very hard to detect their bites with mono.Graphite rods were available a short time before spiderwire,so it helped on feeling those light bites.Cast out an erie dearie,count down,and huge difference on feeling those walleye bites after spiderwire. Trolling mono,half the time you'd get a small 17" eye hit it and you couldn't even tell until it started waterskiing on the top. Get out 100 yds of line and after it stretches,there would be 130 yds out. Now that I'm 10 mins away from one of the best saugeye lakes in the country,I don't even bother with Erie any more. I use the same lake erie setup,but downsized. Instead of a few hundred feet of spiderwire behind the boat,I only need 40'-50'. About 30' behind my offshore planerboards.That spiderwire allows me to feel every little contour of the bottom,every pc of weed,and even 1" snagged minnows.I feel everything even in 3' waves. I couldn't get that feel with mono. My catchrate increased 5x since the switch from mono to spiderwire. I thought 40-50 saugeye was a good year til spiderwire brought in 200+ every year,including 272 this year!

I'd only use it in certain circumstances like trolling and drifting.Tightlining for channecats,I wouldn't use it because of the snags.You're just asking for rod and line breakage.Snags are hard on braids,even if you have a high rated line strength.Each vicious snag will fracture the braid,fiber by fiber.Then all of a sudden you get a big fish or a snag,it breaks easily.It broke at the weak spot so when you tie your next bait on,it'll be strong until those snags start breaking the fibers.This would be a good explanation for someone like myself using superbraids and fishing snag infested waters.I also wouldn't use the lighter stuff for crappie and blugills. 4# mono suffices there!

I upgraded to a set of 4 matching daiwa accudepths 27W's. 200+ yds of 20# mono backing and 150+ yards of 30# spiderwire.I calibrated them all for 100'Hopefully the switch from #20 to 30# spiderwire doesn't hurt my setup.I was kinda hoping my baits wouldn't dive down as deep,and get out an extra yard of 2 of line behind the boat.

Saugeye Trolling
Rex Ursus 9 years ago
#2690

I just popped in to say that my spider wire is almost two years old and going strong. It is a little faded though. It works out to being cheaper in the long run than good monofilament for the amount of time it lasts.

MkAdNk 9 years ago
#2704

I use 20# braided Powerpro for salmon in the rivers of Washington. I never swapped my gear over to lighter line for lake trout. I have been out fishing everyone in the lake and out casting them by at least 20 feet with my 6'6" pole. The trick for the fish not seeing the line is to have enough leader I usually use 4'-5'. For the trout I just a 6# green mono, and for the salmon I use 15# fluorocarbon. The water up here isn't crystal clear but it isn't muddy either.