Hello all, after reading the fluorocarbon thread I realize I know very little about it, other than I used to use it as a leader when I was snook/trout/redfish fishing.
In Florida I don’t fish many gin clear lakes and grew up on Trilene XT, always used green.
Of the 9 rods I usually have with me 6 have Suffix green 832 in 30lb..flipping stick is 65; one (topwater) 12-14 Trilene XT; and one (Texas rigged worm) 14-17 Trilene XT. So here is my question...
Would I gain any advantage to rigging up a particular pole with fluorocarbon?
I picked up a 200 yard spool of Pline Tactical in 12lb simply because I want to try it out.
I don't use leaders, haven’t seen a reason to. I haven’t seen my hit ratio go down on my spinnerbait, crankbait, frogs, topwater, jerkbait, jig, chatterbait, flipping, soft plastics, etc when I went to the 30lb Suffix 832 but I still use the XT on my main T rigged worm pole out of habit and on topwater so I get the stretch of mono.
I fish in the typical Florida lakes...lots of shoreline cover, hydrilla and other grasses off the shore, pad fields, docks, etc.
I have and will keep reading articles on fluorocarbon, but I’d like the people that I respect their opinions (you guys) to give me a situation that flouro would be better than mono or braid so I can spool this up and give it a try!
Thanks everyone, Chris