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.
