Thread: Braided line question

I have used braid for 6-7 years both on my pro angler tackle casting rods and my Huckabee dipping rods. Ain’t no doubt about it I set the hook and then swing em in the boat. No soft hook sets, reel them in hook sets or soft rods in my boat whether I’m using braid or not.

Using 8# test braid yesterday I caught what I believe was a huge carp (by the way it ran) and after fighting it for approx. 40 seconds it straightened the jig hook. 8# test mono would have snapped long before that on the first run. Other fish had to be pulled from gaps in the pads where the line wrapped around leaf stems via the fish. Got them all out with no line breaks.

braid will straighten a hook out in a heart beat and or snap it , mono about never if its the right test and the operator has the drag set accordingly for the application .
used a braid rod yesterday on a pit stop , hated it about as much as its last time in my hand 2 weeks ago , it has its place for some in the arsenal of trying to ketch a fish items and in that real deep water winter stuff it is a champ , the rest of the time , it needs to rest in my garage .
it does well for hanging things off the ceiling btw , zero stretch

braid will straighten a hook out in a heart beat and or snap it , mono about never if its the right test and the operator has the drag set accordingly for the application .

Yeah but mono of the same test as braid will snap faster as well as wear faster. I leave all my reels on the boat in full sun during the warm season that have braid and there is no deterioration. No jig hooks I use have ever snapped though some bronze hooks will open given a strong fight. Forget brass hooks - the worse for gapping out.

I snapped a hook one time in a lake we hit, trying to ketch 1 of the 4 or 5 monster mohawks we know live in there , was using braid as we knew the fish were over 3 and wanted to not take any chances .
the lake is known for real big bass and my guide bud told me about the monster mohawks that were few and far between in there .
dropped said big pretty hand tie down a tree close to sunset and THUMP and set the hook and WHAT ever it was tried to pull me over the side of the boat !
drag was set tight and it did not last long , had me stretched out like a stick man when the hook snapped at the bend ,and it was brand new real nice hand tie...... darnit

To each his own I guess. I would quit fishing if someone told me I had to fish with soft rods and mono again. Wish I had all the hours of my life back and money I wasted respooling mono over the years.