I use braid for flipping just because I dont like stretch at all…and I feel i can get away with the visability in the stained river water. But I noticed in the classic that basically everyone(that they showed on tv) were using Fluerocarbon…or possibly mono but im guessing fluerocarbon. Just seeing wut everyone uses out there on the river…?
I use Power Pro which is a weaved line versus a braid. Smoothest casting line with zero memory. IF… You are concerned about visibility tie 30 inches of mono onto the end of your braid. Not much stretch in 30 inches, and you still get the benefits of low visability lines. 
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I use Power Pro which is a weaved line versus a braid. Smoothest casting line with zero memory. IF… You are concerned about visibility tie 30 inches of mono onto the end of your braid. Not much stretch in 30 inches, and you still get the benefits of low visability lines.
Hey Chris,
This technique would be just for say casting spoons, spinner baits and crank baits wouldn’t it? I wouldn’t think this would be an option with plastic worms or jigs, unless the water is a bit stained. I’ve got a braid lined tied to spooled on my bait caster and have used it with success without a mono leader, but then again the water is stained.
I’ve been thinking about re-spooling with Berkly Fluorocarbon and stay away from braided lines. I don’t like some of the fraying that I see on my line.. Any thoughts ??? It’s time to get ready for open water season.. Rods, reels, tackle, boat…work work work.. 
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I use Power Pro which is a weaved line versus a braid. Smoothest casting line with zero memory. IF… You are concerned about visibility tie 30 inches of mono onto the end of your braid. Not much stretch in 30 inches, and you still get the benefits of low visability lines.
I use the same set up as Chris for Bass in heavy cover and the flooded trees…either Power Pro or Stren Braid with a Yozuri Hybrid leader…that stuff is Zerbra Mussel TOUGH!
Last year I switched out a few of my rods from Power Pro to fluerocarbon. In my opinion it was a waist of money to spool full fluerocarbon. I will be switching back to Power Pro and tipping it with fluerocarbon. Most of the waters I fish are heavily stained anyway and I seen no difference between full fluero versus PP/tipped.
I am a hard core drop shot and jig fisherman. I have spent the last two years testing any fluero that I can get my hands on. I have found that the Trilene to be the worst with P-Line and Seaguar carbon pro to be the best with the seaguar being the finesse choice by far and Yo-zuri being a close second. All my heavey jig rods and SB rods are P-Line Flueroclear. Scott
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I use Power Pro which is a weaved line versus a braid. Smoothest casting line with zero memory. IF… You are concerned about visibility tie 30 inches of mono onto the end of your braid. Not much stretch in 30 inches, and you still get the benefits of low visability lines.
I use the same set up as Chris for Bass in heavy cover and the flooded trees…either Power Pro or Stren Braid with a Yozuri Hybrid leader…that stuff is Zerbra Mussel TOUGH!
Tom, how would you add your leader?? Uni-knot, blood knot?? Or use a barrel swivel?? I’m concerned about loosing touch with a plastic worm adding that leader…
In stained water I use straight Power Pro… In water with more clarity I add 2 or 3ft. of Seaguar Fluorocarbon or Gamma Copolymer! Both sweet and tough, kind of like my old lady 
I use power pro with a Gamma Flourocarbon leader of about 4 ft. I use back to back to back uni knots to attach the leader. This works great in all water conditions. I only use mono for drop shotting. My cabin is on a lake with a 20 foot seechi disk reading and the flourocarbon leaders have increased my catch ratio as I use a 12lb leader and get the same amount of strikes as I did with 6lb mono. The difference being is I land more smallies and lose less tackle.
I’m no great jig fisherman by any standard and like most of the others here I use a powerpro for most of my jigging. I also add a 3 or 4 ft fluro leader when fishing in clear water. That being said the 2 or 3 best jig fisherman I know would not even think of fishing a braid on there jig rod. They believe that it negatively effects the jigs action and that the lack of strech causes people to set the hook to early. I’m not sure if I agree with either of these 2 points but it hard to argue with their success. I know on many occasion when they have outfished me by 3 or 4 to one using the same lure and fishing the same water. I’m going to be switching one of my jig rods over to fluro this summer and see for myself if it helps. Not that it would take much to improve my jig fishing success.
Hey Guys,
Good info here. First off I feel Powerpro is much more resistant to fraying and sun damaging compared to Braided lines. A braided line is different from a weaved line. Braided lines typically have 3 smaller strands wrapped together and a weaved line is without a better description “Weaved”. You smelling what I’m stepping in?? It is a very smooth casting line. Very strong.
Now to dive a bit more “In Depth” on the mono vs. braid/weave stuff here is my opinion. If casting jigs I say your fooling yourself that anything will outproduce a braid/weaved line as the no stretch feature will greatly improve anglers abilities to detect bites and hook fish up. As far as fish seeing the line?? Well most of the time I fish stained water. I utilize the Cajun Red color combination. This enables me to detect the whereabouts of my jig…. Now if I am fishing straight over the side of the boat I might lean towards a mono version as I believe that the no stretch feature might have you pulling out of many fish as you lack a little forgiveness in the stretch and re-coil features mono can provide. Remember far more fish have hooks pulled out with too much pressure rather than break you off. I am very very conscious of drag settings MOSTLY becuase I feel many many fish are not hooked great. Might be just through a thin piece of skin in the mouth, and too much tension will be the end-game for that battle.
Lastly I believe in most circumstances a clear mono leader will outproduce straight weaved or braided set-ups. Remember when your casting jigs you get many reaction bites versus Drop shotting or vertical jigging which lends itself to fish really analyzing the set-up.
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I have found that the Trilene to be the worst… Scott
Scott, I tried the trilene 15lb flouro…thought it ‘decent’ but still had more memory and I thought the line diameter was too much.
I now use 10 pound Trilene flouro for cranking and weightless plastics…at that pound test, it’s just about like Trilene XL (to me the standard in fishability for a line)…
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