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Hey Wishn....Our good buddy Mr. Dance just had a show on television last weekend or so and he was using braid on his spinning reel with a 24" to 36" flouro leader tied onto a barrel swivel. One things for sure, if you don't try it for yourself you'll never truly know if you like it or not.
I use braid on a spinning reels with a fluro leader for redfish around reeds joined with a double uni knot. Works great! The braid slices through the reeds whe the red make their run into the vegitation, would have lost a lot of fish if I was using mono. I also like the braid for inshore shark fishing. The braid allows me to get a good hookset into the toothy jaws.
The uni knots are my choice also.One other quirk about braids,scissors wont cut it in many applications, a good sharp knife and a hard surface for trimming is best.I donmt use a flouro on surface baits , in a lot of cases it kills the action becAUSE IT SINKS.
I use the green fireline on my spinning tackle mainly because I fish alot of shallow brushy water and I can't use a baitcaster. Great for vertical fishing live minnows on stake beds/brush piles in Jonathan Creek on KY Lake. I like to use the little golden hooks with the braid just cause I can straighten em' out so easily when I get hung up real bad.
A lot of reel manufacturer's are coming out with spinning reel spools made for superlines.. i.e. abu garcia's new soron series... like said before if you don't have a superline spool, use tape or wind up with some mono first... Winding up with mono first is a good idea anyways since superlines are costly. Advantages of braid are many... and for me and many others... braid seems to work better and cast better after its been used a while. When that coating wears off and its stretched a bit it seems to cast limper. Also for cutting purposes I keep a pair of high quality small nail clippers handy. Maybe tommorow your wife girlfriend will be missing hers:-)
Personally I don't use braid a lot... I have an issue with its looks lol.. and I don't much care for black fingers. In all applications except for topwater fishing I use flourocarbon. And of course for topwater I use monofilament. Happen to be a berkley man myself and would suggest fireline as a premium superline choice.
I have a confession to make, the trouties would flog me for, sometimes when I'm fishing around Polka's home turf I encounter a good deal of sauger which shred fine tippet. I use the neon green fireline for a tippet! Smallies don't care and sauger don't steal my flies.
Thanks guys for all the informative replies, I think after reading the replies, I may try it on the spinning gear I use just for senko's and shakey heads around rocks. Bob