Pig and Jig fishin

[remsleeper]

Braid for feel and durability, and the fluoro leader for less visibility. If the bite is finicky, sometimes you slowly pick up the rod to check if the fish is on. The leader having more stretch helps keep you from pulling it away from the fish.

[Fishin is life]

The braid has no stretch and if youre flipping heavy brush it gets the fish headed your direction as soon as you set the hook. Every second longer you give that fish in the brush then its that much more likely to hang you up

[CATCHEMALL]

If you are flipping and pitching and it is not really heavy cover just use mono or floro. If you are dragging a jig in 30ft of water the braid with a leader is a good option because of the extra feeling and no stretch.

[bigbasscatcher]

I have one rod and reel that I use only for flipping and pitching. It's 7.6 heavy action rod with a pro qualifier reel spooled with 65lb super sonic braid. I've never used a leader but if I was fishing gin clear water then I would give it some thought. I like the braid for the sencetivity and the strength so I can pull the big boys out of cover. I see the reasoning for the fluro leader but in my opinion you really don't need it for Nolin lake.

[hairball]

To answer your first question, of course the leader will break first, provided your knot is up to snuff. This is a good thing because you don't have to retie at the leader, which means you haven't wasted any of that precious braid. That might make me seem like a real tightwad, but I'm on a fixed income and my @$$#%!# puckers every time I clip the tag end of braid.
To me, the biggest advantage of braid is its limpness. It casts better and has absolutely no memory. When you've had fluoro on a reel for a while, it starts getting memory and every single coil in it after the cast detracts from the sensitivity. That's the game changer right there for me.

[Les Young]

The braid is so limp & has so much sensitivity & the florocarbon leader is way more invisible than braid & floro sinks too. Plus you can flat snap a rod in short order using strictly braid unless you back your drag off. Way better off to lose a jig & leader than a rod.