Quote Originally Posted by peter View Post
Yeah. I tried some brade (that maybe on a rod) a long time ago fishing the turbines on the Ohio. Man was that a diaster with the swoft water and all the junk and rocks on the bottom. a three way swivel with a mono leader was not enough to keep the braid off the junk. Could not break it off and had one big tangled mess. Never tried it again.
This is for casting deep open water, not much chance of hang. I am a little worried about the zero stretch factor as it relates to pulling hooks out of fishes mouth but I'll be using lures with big hooks and hopefully adjustments can be made.
I use Tuff Line XP on almost everything.
I use 50lb Tuff Line XP on my big cat rods and finish it with a 30 lb top shot of big game mono, usually about 20 ft if I'm hanging up like that. Normally I just tie the braid to a 3 way swivel and put 30lb mono on my hook line and 12-15lb on my sinker line then when the sinker hangs up you can break it off. I put a small float on my hook line to keep it out of the rocks. Let the sinker hang in the rocks and then reel up tight. A big cat will break the sinker line in that current.

On my small spinners I use smaller tuffline. No reason to use 20 lb on smaller outfits, use the 10 lb. It will still have a breaking strength of 12-15lbs. I almost always use 3 feet of florocarbon so if I hang up I can break the floro. You are better off with some sort of leader as the braid will break on rocks, clams, ect.