I have tried braid, I liked it, but I bass fish a lot and I am used to setting the hook really hard, when I put braid on my crappie rods, I broke a couple of tip sections because of the natural instinct to try and rip their lips off like I was setting the hook on a 6 pound bass. It did cut down on the number of jigs I lost each trip. I crappie fish in the fall and winter and I am fresh off of fishing all spring and summer for bass so it takes a few trips to break the habit of setting the hook real hard.