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Originally Posted by piemma
A word of caution on the "all in on braid thing". I fished the Block last Nov and found out, the hard way, that braid isn't necessarily good for all things. It doesn't have the abrasion resistance that good tough mono (like Ande Back Country) does. The Block is a lot of rock and rubble and barnacles so I lost fish and plugs due to line breaking, fraying, etc. This was fresh 50# Suffix 832. I have since bought extra spools for my reels and now have one loaded with braid and one loaded with mono for all my reels. Same with the conventionals except it's one reel with mono and one with braid.
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In a situation like that I tie the leader direct and give myself three or four wraps of leader on the spool plus the standard casting length that way when the fish get into the rocks you will generally have enough leader to avoid the abrasion.
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