[eelman]

The original question was "Do you think it increases your catch rate?"

Here is what increases your catch reate:

Time on the water
Learning to read water , learning currets and tides and winds
More time on the water...
Learning the habits of the fish your after and the prey they seek
Time on the water.......

If you do that, go ahead and use mono leader, I gurantee you will catch as many if not more than the guy who parades around at every sportsman show in the northeast and who beleves what he reads and who gets suckered into buying what he doesnt need.

Its one thing in my brief seminar stints that I stress...Learning how to fish is much more important than what you buy or beleve you think you need.Its also one of the reasons I am jaded from doing seminars, see so many lost souls out thre really trying to make sense of it all...When in reality its so easy to catch a sriped bass.

I also see that the guys who pump products from manufactures go a bit further....thats fine if selling your soul is what its all abaout....I dont do that, in fact when I talk, I do the oppisite...Trust me it ruffeles feathers when I will not conform...I dont give a %$%$%$%$...I would rather tell the truth than kiss some tackle shops arse or suck up to a plug builder etc...I tell it like it is...

At least with me you get a true picture not someone looking for the next speaking engadgement...I will never kiss arse...

The truth is that its a fish with a tiny brain....They need two things....one is to eat and the other is to spawn..there not hard to catch...They used to use cloth line...think about that...

One more thing, When I do accept a seminar, I take it serious, very much so and I only tell the truth and I honestly tell people what has worked for me...They get the real deal...I would rahther see that than someone talk about all the books they have written or paste pictures of all the fish they caught in the old days..

Of course everyone has an opinon...My advice would be however to be carefull which opinion you listen to....