Hi, Folks. Greetings from your neighbor "down under." (Louisiana) :-) I'll add my own little experience with braid while jigging with a 10-foot rod. When I lived in FL, I tried PowerPro 10 pound. I just loved it; I loved the THUMP that Turtlebait describes and also loves. Once I had a good knot tied, it seemed to last forever, trip after trip, in fact. Therein lies a problem.

One day my partner and I were fishing in our favorite crappie habitat, shallow water supporting bullrushes. With him in the front of the boat, I expected to have him outcatch me, although he was always thoughtful to leave me some spots. On this one day, though, I simply could not get a bite, and John was haulin' them in. What a puzzlement to me that was. Then, it hit me: I had been using that same length of line for several trips. The line was tough stuff, for sure. During all of the days I had been fishing with it, the sun had faded it gradually from a wonderful olive green to nearly white. I had not been able to recognize the color change, as it was so gradual. Luckily, I had a spool of clear monofilament in my fishing bag; I put it onto my pole. I immediately began catching as many crappies as my partner was catching.

I think the solution would be simply to cut off a pole length of line after each trip and retie the hard-to-tie knot. Guess I was too lazy to do that.

Good luck up there, guys. Ray