I'm a big fan of the braid personally... 50# PP for me. I hate mono now
except for for leaders. My love affair with braid began because I used to fish the canal almost exclusively... hence the Canalman moniker. It's castabilty is far superior to any mono at least as far as a spinning outfit goes... I don;t do convench... too many bird's nests
. When I began to get heavy into the surf.. I used mono for a while and then I tried braid again... I'm a big fan of drifting live eels and plugs into the dropping current of river and inlet mouths... mono just does not work for this application. In the rocks, I have been cut off and lost a few real nice fish but then we started using 15' mono leaders... haven't had a breakoff since. The sensitivity is nice for eeling, great for jigging and you don;t have to work too hard to work a plug either. All around great line IMHO plus mono feels like a figgen elastic band... can't even feel the fish anymore
... now that I've used braid for so long.
-Dave
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