pluggin/ braid

[partsjay]

I use Spiderwire braid for pluggin' ......works great!!

[Fisherwoman]

Jfisher, all of the aboved mention how much better it is. What I find most is you will definatly increase your hook set on a windy day as you will feel the strike on the braid and sometimes not even feel it at all on mono. if you can;t feel the fish then the hook set just doesn't matter. We fish Power Pro braid exclusivley now and Will not go back to mono. Couple of reasons.

Lasts 10 times longer
More line capacity on reels
Best for windy conditions
Longer casting distance
Better feel
Great for cod jiggin as it sinks faster and you can really hookum better.
Perfect for live bait.
No line coil memory.

If you are concerned with it being to tuff on hook set then just use a mono or florocarbon leader. We use are teaser rigs as the leader unless we are live bait fishing, then we use a 3 ft section of 50lb berkly big game for a shock leader and to prevent getting cut off by a rock, or being able to break it off if you get hung up.

We use 30 lb test on all of our light spinning rod. 7-8 ft medium heavy blanks with spinning reel that will hold 200 yds of 10-12 lb test line. For all of our Baitcasting reels we use 50 lb test and for Tuna we use 65-80 lb test for footballs. We take many clients out a year and have alot less problems with knots on braid then we did when we were using mono.

[Goose]

With braid, be more aware of how your line and reel work together... especialy in windy conditions.

[ragfly]

One thing that you should do is get in the habit of flipping your bail manually and pulling the line tight. If you are fihsing doing the day take a quick look at the line and make sure it isn't rapped over the top of your spool.... If it is the next cast will be a mess and braid is a bitch to untangle. I have used all the different types of braids the past 4 years on various reels and the line rapping over the top of the spool happens to all of them.