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Northern I would stick with mono for top water personally , braid should be fine for all of your other applications . the only thing i would suggest is if your are fishing were there is less vegetation or the water is really clear would be to tie a leader on fluorocarbon or mono which ever you want i would go fluorocarbon but thats just me . attach the leader via a uni to uni knot or the j knot .
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Thanks Jim!
I'll have to pick up a spool of mono and fluoro at my local shop. any suggestions on the length of the leader? Thanks again. NA |
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6 to 8 feet is thrown around lot and should do fine for ya I personally use fluorocarbon for all my set ups except top waters right now .
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I would say you use it in most situations depending on what your doing with it. I would never use it for fishing crankbaits. In my oppinion, you would rip the lure from too many bass with it. Mono is a much better crankbait line. It also would not make a very good surface bait line because braid sinks. And while I "might" use a 15-20 pound braid when fishing small finesse baits in some situations, I would think 50 pound would be way to heavy for that application.
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there's lots you can go with but if you fishing spinners and topwaters and cranks then you should look into fishing braided line for it's strengh
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For spinnerbaits, I've used braided line, but prefer a fluoro or copolymer. I've found that the extreme sensitivity and no stretch of braid, caused my to set the hook too fast and pull the spinnerbait away from the fish. For cranks, I like mono and not braid for the same reason I don't like braid for spinnerbaits. I am thinking of switching to a copolymer on my crankbait rod though to give it a try. BB
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When it comes to mono, I'm all over the Trilene XL Smooth Casting
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powerpro is outdated.i use 65 pound test fireline braid.
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spinnerbait: 15 lb test
crankbait: 12 lb test topwater: 15 lb test |
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Mono is the only way to go with Top-waters. Fluorocarbon is good with crankbaits because it sinks faster. And spinnerbaits can be used with anything. If you're going to be using all three of those on one single rod then you have to use Mono. Because the Top-water lures will not float properly. In would go with 10 lb. Stren or Trilene XL.
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when learning a bait caster don't worrie about line buy the cheapest 17 lb you can. you will become very filmier with picken and grinnen 17 pound is a good diameter which makes pulling a back lash out a bit easier.
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I second this...I tried some braid at the very first...didn't know what the heck I was doing...and promptly had to cut a bunch of it off of my reel. I put on some 17lb mono, and it was a totally different animal. Not what I use now, but it was a good learning aid.
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