Thread: Braided Line vs Mono

I think most use a fluorocarbon leader with it if they are crappie fishing. The perch I caught in my post with the Flexit Jig was tied directly to a snap swivel with 12# braided line. I like it when jigging cause it is so sensitive.
I believe it depends on the fish. Crappie can be finicky eaters so light line and small jigs are required sometimes and others they only want live minnows. A White Perch is a voracious eater and does not seem to care what he hits. I have caught two at a time on a rig when only one hook was baited. The other one hit a bare gold crappie hook.

I really like braid for vertical jigging for white perch but I,m waiting to see how it will effect crappie. I have rods rigged with hi-viz yellow and braid to test them out. The question has been posed here before with mixed results.

mono ---- or co-ploymers. like searay said florua carbon for leaders. I really don't like the braids but I haven't tried any in @ 6 yrs though.

I started with braid fishing for grouper tightlininng a Carolina rig down around 100' deep. We put mono on one rod and braid on the other. We caught 10 to 1 over mono because of the stretch over those depths affect sensitivity and you miss fish when you do not feel them. On crappie, I am convinced you will feel more with braid especially when your tightlining down deep, but getting hung without a leader that will break away is a real problem.

I use some 10#, 20# and 30# braid and like all three weights of braid but also use a leader. I tried pulling cranks one time without a leader and got a crank hung in a underwater tree and it turned the boat around. Had to cut the line because the braid wouldn't break. Did a little perch jerking with the 20#, works very well.

I have half of my tight linning rod with mono and half with 20 lb braid. The catch ratio is not any different. I catch just an many fish on braid as I do mono. I have also used braid on my pulling rod and there is no difference than using mono except you can pull a lot more jigs free saving retying time. I do not use a leader and tie directly to the line.

I fish with my wife and so I tie on the hooks and jigs for 2 instead of just one. I don't know if it makes a difference on catching fish but it sure does on getting back your hooks, so I use nothing but 10 and 8 lb fireline crystal. I seldom break off a hook as they will usually bend out. we spider rig most of the time so I never use anykind of leader and use 10 lb lines on my c&c rigs. I wouldn't use anything but braid.

I also use Fireline bright green for my swamp fishing and wouldn't use any mono anymo... I use 8 pound, size of 3 pound, no memory and no twist, sensitivity is great. I have to carry a 1" wooden dowell in the boat to wrap around the line when I'm hooked up on a stump so that I can straighten out the hook, cause the line isn't going to break.