Braid all day. A tiny leader if you are fishing walking baits.
Braid all day. A tiny leader if you are fishing walking baits.
14lb Super SilverThread
Big game for me money wise can't be beat and it works good also 15 and up , never had good luck with the 12 for some reason
1990 374V Ranger Still kickin' bass after all these years
12# Big Game for small topwaters and 15# for big topwaters like spooks and maybe 20# for baits like Whopper Ploppers.
You really can't complain...well you can but...... I use either Stren or Trilene for monofilament line. It's dirt cheap and I usually only keep mono on my reels a month at a time anyways.
2009 Triton 20X3
Mercury 250 ProXS
"Can't" means "don't want to"
I like 17# Trilene XL.
I’m in the 12 lb big game club too
Bought some Big Game today
Big Game.
15# Senshi Seaguar
Tried big game, trilene XT, XL, Stren, none have been worth the money the labels cost to print. Only mono I've had that didn't disappoint is the Sunline SuperNatural. But I still use braid most of the time.
2001 Champion 187 Yamaha 175
12' Talons, Lithiums and Garmins
All pulled by a Hemi
Big Game is hard to beat. You can pay a lot more for something else, but BG gets the job done.
I used BG several years ago for a couple seasons and was very disappointed. My main gripe was that BG had so much stretch that I could not always get a solid hookset. Many, many times I set the hook and the fish would come off before I got it in the boat. I did some stretch tests comparing BG to other lines and BG had more stretch than most others. No one has a 100% rate of landing fish. But, with BG my rate of lost fish was far too high. Since switching to Izorline a number of years ago, I very rarely lose a fish once I set the hook. And, Izorline is comparably priced with BG.
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I have not purchased mono line for several years.Only reason I haven't is because I have so much of it,lol.I don't know about the new stuff but I aways liked to use a larger diameter (less stretch) mono line.But this did make it more difficult to fish smaller topwater like the pop "r". Try to find a mono with less stretch if such an animal is manufactured.Good luck and good fishing
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