Thread: Braid opinions/suggestions

Originally Posted by cray

Get a pair of those cheap little kids paper scissors. They work about as good as my braid scissors.

I use & recommend the Child Size Fiskar Scissors for cutting braid. You can usually find them in the "school supplies" section of X-marts & similar stores, for around $3 or less.

The great thing about cutting braid with these scissors, is that they will leave a blunt tag end. That makes it a lot easier to put the tag end through a small jig eye. Other "cutters" seem to leave the tag end a little raggedy, with fibers sticking out from the tag, which can make putting the line through the jig eye more difficult than it needs to be.

One other recommendation, is to have a wood dowel handy. Use it to wrap your braid around when you're hung up & need to pull your bait free. Braid will cut into your skin, cork handles, and foam handles when wrapped around them !!

... cp

Thanks Pappy, gots lots to learn! GAWD I love this sight!

Originally Posted by deerhunterodie

Floyd, this is a great question that I addressed at one of our Crappie.com meetings. It was not something I came up with in my own litlle pea brain. One of my best friends is a pro bass fisherman and he showed me that instead of respooling his entire reel he would leave about 1/3 of his line on then spool then spool the rest with whatever pound line he needed. He then used a marker to write the poundage of the line on the reel or rod handle. This was necessary because of the number of rigs he had set up at any one time. So I got the idea to do the same with my braid reels. I go buy the CHEAPEST mono I can find and spool my reels 2/3 - 3/4 full then tie on my braid to finish filling the spool. I use 6 pound mono and 20/6 power pro on my reels. So in answering your question that 150 yd spool of braid would do about 5 reels for me. Yes braid is more expensive but doing it this way makes it very affordable. Not to mention you will save more than enough on retrieved jigs to pay for it 5 times over. Another advantage is not losing fishing time having to tie on jigs all the time. Using this little trick and using super glue on my jigs I have fished multiple days with the same jigs. Before some of my "BUDDIES" jump on that last statement, YES I was fishing deep in brush and caught fish. LOL!!!

Hope this helps!

Odie

I've read this about spooling with junk line and then with your good line somewhere before. I forgot all about it. Good to know again.