07-25-2009, 07:35 PM
. Only time you should be using a 100% mono line is when you are topwater fishing. It floats more than the co polymer or fluoro carbon lines, so your topwater poppers etc will stay floating.
Mono is the line of the past. Way too much stretch, poor abraison quality and it doesnt keep its original structure very easy.
Absolute sage avdice from Rippinlips, and also Old Coot! Lose the mono, and get some 6 to 10 lb test braid, and tip it with a few feet of flourocarbon. But... STAY AWAY from Berkely Vanish! That stuff is crap... no knot strenght at all. It cost me several nice fish last year. Now I use P-Line Halo, and have been really happy with it. I changed over one rod to the braid/flouro combo early last year as a test and couldn't believe the difference! Now all of my rods have this combo. The only time I use mono anymore is for topwater. HTH, Fred K.
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Mono is the line of the past. Way too much stretch, poor abraison quality and it doesnt keep its original structure very easy.
Absolute sage avdice from Rippinlips, and also Old Coot! Lose the mono, and get some 6 to 10 lb test braid, and tip it with a few feet of flourocarbon. But... STAY AWAY from Berkely Vanish! That stuff is crap... no knot strenght at all. It cost me several nice fish last year. Now I use P-Line Halo, and have been really happy with it. I changed over one rod to the braid/flouro combo early last year as a test and couldn't believe the difference! Now all of my rods have this combo. The only time I use mono anymore is for topwater. HTH, Fred K.
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