I used Braid this past fall and winter, I like the way it feel, made thing so much more sesitive to the bite, I did'nt lose any fish to it, My only complaint is that I was using 10/2 and I was losing alot of jigs because the loop I tie for my jigs so that they hang flat in the water would slip out of the eye of the hook. There was a time or two that the crappie actually knocked the jig hard enough to make it come off the braid.