Quote Originally Posted by gillchaser999 View Post
I’ve been playing with braid again for several months.
I love the advantage of being able to lift fish without worry of breaking off and being able to fish around cover .
But I don’t like the way it cast on micro guide equipped rods .
Really showed up as an issue with my new Major Craft rods .
It’s like the loops don’t compress quick enough to enter the stripper guide .

I’ve gotten a couple of reels that still had 2# Floroclear on them , mounted on my MC rods ready for a quick trip tomorrow.
We’ll see if the copolymer line has the same issue .
It’s not spool diameter as I’ve tried reel from 500 size through 2000 . All with line slap when casting .
Let you know what I find .

Here is what I have found out about this subject. It can be the rod or the reel causing it. I have used braid on those rods and I have not had issues. Now the braid I was using was the Infinity PE X8 in a 0.2 gou. Everything was going great...the reel I was using on the Major Craft stream rods was rated for 0.3 gou or below. The rod I think was rated up to an 0.8 gou. Then I started using some braid with a 0.6 gou on another setup that I thought could handle it. Boy was I wrong. Neither the reel or the rod was rated for that line. Had same issue you are talking about. As a matter of fact was out in shop yesterday taking braid off of two reels that were not rated for the braid I had on them. Am getting my braid outfits setup to toss the D2 jig for trout. Last July when fishing upon the White with my nephew I had 2 outfits in the boat with me. One was a complete mismatch for both rod and reel. After a few casts I had a mess. Now I am down to one rod and I had larger braid on the reel than it was rated for. So the lesson I learned is those ratings do mean something. In reality I knew that but just kind of blew it off and told myself it will be OK.


Regards