Quote Originally Posted by Jbyrd View Post
Best all around is to use spider wire stealth 10 pound test BRAID, and then tie on a florocarbon leader about 18 inches long . Hardly any bird nests and almost no line twist. You can use a 4- 15 pound leader and cover a lot of technics. Also can cast it alot farther and ZERO line memory that we all have ran into with ALL FLOROCARBONS. Try it it will blow you away with the difference than mono or floro. Oh yes you may use the same line all year .
I went through a phase were I was just in love with braided lines...zero memory, great castability, etc. Then, I really started to realize how much my line was getting these casting knots in it? The knots were impossible to get untangled, so I would have to pull line out to the knot, cut, re-tie. This was getting expensive. I also started to wonder about the extreme visibility of braided line....looks like rope in the water. I like the idea of using the fluro leader, however I wonder if 18 inches would be enough for a fish not to notice the braid that close? If you use longer fluro leaders, than you have to deal with the knot connecting the lines having to go through your eyelits on ever cast shortening your casting distance and possibly causing damage to the knot over a series of cast that could result in a break with a nice fish. Just curious cause I enjoyed fishing with braid, and just loved the sensitivity and casting distance, but I changed back to fluro because of the other issues.

-Rich