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I lost a good fish to an abutment with 80lb whiplash. Braid is not good for abrasion resistance. I think what saltheart was saying is to pick a thick braid because thicker braid will have better abrasion resistance than thin braid, not that one should pick it based on breaking strength or that one chooses braid (over mono for example) because it is abrasion resistant. I think he is on to something. The fact that a braid breaks at 50lbs is not nearly as important as the inherent lack of stretch and the fact the it casts far because it is thin. Go with the thickest that will still cast reasonably well. Based on mono, a 17lb diameter equivalent braid still casts better than 20lb mono. I want to compare 17lb diameter braid to 17lb diameter mono to see if I can tease out how much the abrasion resistance is directly related to diameter vs other properties of braid vs mono.
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