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A 3-7lb largemouth in cover is going to be hard to tame with any light line. Your just gonna have a difficult time turning one in heavy cover. One the lakes I fish has a healthy population of hybrids. I use 6lb test when fishing for crappie in this lake because those hybrids are hard fighters and you have turn them quickly to have a chance in catching one.
True, but in deep water, I can usually get a big bass to the net, and have many times. My PB LMB was a double-digit monster I hooked while dock-shooting for crappie, with the same K9 line, on a Major Craft JDM rod. This wasn't in cover, he just popped the line with sudden acceleration. Time rate-of-change of acceleration (dA/dt) is "jerk", and jerk he did.
You have to pick your battles when fishing UL .
4# used to be my go to line .
While fishing my local reservoir from my Jon boat a couple years back , I lost two green fish in the moss .
Hard to haul them out of the moss once they get into it .
Now , I do most of my fishing with 2# but try to stay away from cover .
Having been the dumb guy in most crowds of local fishermen, I’ve been using lighter than normal line for a long time. Learned a long time back that I could throw a weightless plastic worm across the lily pads and when a bass hit it they were fantastic. However, I had to use 6lb mono to do that and got broken off more than I like to talk about. Luck is always involved when a good fish gets on one of our little rods. I haven’t used braid but a little bit when chasing green fish and had the leader fail most times. I had gotten broken off at a place I’d been throwing 1/32 jigs a couple of times with the 2lb Nanofil. Next time I brought the 4lb mono rod. What I caught the next trip was a 5lb 1oz Tilapia on a tiny chartreuse jig that must have looked like some of the moss they feed on. Had to hold the spool and fight him with the rod. Attachment 454657
Got a picture of the scale too. Hope you get them figured out, always gets my heart rate up.
Dang, I bet that thing fought like the dickens.
If you are dropping in heavy cover for spring fish , it would be a good idea to use some light braid or 8 lb mono .
Anything less and some unfortunate occurrence will take place on what might “have” the fish of a lifetime...just saying