Mono or braid and several other questions

[Hanr3]

Depends on your fishing technique and your personal preference.
I use 2# mono for casting to finicky fish. It sinks slowly.
I use 6# mono for casting into trees.
6# or 8# Flourocarbon for jigging.
10# braid on my spider rig rods. I tie on a swivel quick connect clip and hook my mono double jig rigs to it. IF I get hung up, I lose the mono and can quickly attached another double jig rig.

[GreenLine]

I agree ^^ it depends on your fishing style.
I love big braid and a mono leader for long poles.
The small braid is a no go. Too many tangles and problems.


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[DrNip]

Braid all the time no matter how I’m fishing. 20lb for dipping and 10lb for casting tied straight to the jig.

[Vagante]

Braid all the time no matter how I’m fishing. 20lb for dipping and 10lb for casting tied straight to the jig.

I do the same for salt water. What size braid?

[DWILL]

I use both depending on how I'm chasing them at the moment. I will say that I didn't use braid for the longest time. But the more I use the lighter test, it's growing on me. So much so that I find myself slowly switching everything to it.

[texican89]

4-6lb mono, but most places I fish have gaint bass. I still haven't went to the dark side(braid)

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[Ande]

I have been trolling crank baits with cheep bass pro crappie max 4 #and 6# on ultra light tackle out of my kayak .i sometimes have a lure get the hooks tangled and line is done + i been hooking into something huge a few times with no chance of getting it in .would you guys say go to 10 lb braid ? What happens if i get the hooks tangled on lure is the braid toast like what happens to my mono? .braid is to much $$$ to change out every other trip . i should say i have a trolling motor and its hard to see sometimes when a lure gets fouled out of kayak so my mono gets trashed very quick .

[Techno2000]

I have been trolling crank baits with cheep bass pro crappie max 4 #and 6# on ultra light tackle out of my kayak .i sometimes have a lure get the hooks tangled and line is done + i been hooking into something huge a few times with no chance of getting it in .would you guys say go to 10 lb braid ? What happens if i get the hooks tangled on lure is the braid toast like what happens to my mono? .braid is to much $$$ to change out every other trip . i should say i have a trolling motor and its hard to see sometimes when a lure gets fouled out of kayak so my mono gets trashed very quick .

I would go with 6# braid, it probably has the same strength of 12# mono. I had the same braid on my reels for years.

[Javelin 180]

I like to keep things simple I use 6 lb. Vicious mono for everything except pulling cranks then I'm using 10 Vicious mono I have thought about braid for single poling but never switched.

[Ande]

I just got 4# vicious i may try 10 for trolling .the crappie max is definitely not the best imo that my be part of my prob