What is your primary line setup?

Post by **Cal** » Fri Jun 03, 2022 8:08 am

Understanding it probably changes depending on your application, given the choice though, what is your primary setup?

Hobie-Wan Kenobi · Post by **Hobie-Wan Kenobi** » Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:07 am

Straight FC for panfish and most bass fishing. Braid when needed (frogging and such).

Mono for trout streams most times. Braid with glass rods given the situation

MeatHead · Post by **MeatHead** » Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:35 am

I have braid to leader on pretty much all my outfits, but am trying straight fluoro on 1 setup to try it out.

Larry 2020 Niagara · Post by **Larry 2020 Niagara** » Tue Jun 07, 2022 8:30 pm

Various co-polymers on different outfits
for different applications/situations,
plus flourocarbon (with mono leader) for
Carolina rigs.

dragon1 · Post by **dragon1** » Thu Jun 16, 2022 12:17 pm

Braid + leader or various mono/copoly/fluoro for nearly everything, from BFS, trout/panfish, all around bass techs.

CXX for spinnerbaits, chatters, some topwaters, shallow-mid cranks. Sometimes will toss Yozuri 12lb for all-purpose moving techs, and also 15lb Defier for cranks and topwaters.

KlingerNOK · Post by **KlingerNOK** » Sun Jun 19, 2022 8:01 am

Straight fluoro on most of my setups. I use braid to fluoro on my spinning setups and have tried it on some baitcast setups but I just hate that leader knot going through my guides. I do use braid with a short leader of mono for some topwater fishing to keep the line from fouling often, but it's a short enough leader in which the knot only occasionally goes into the tip.

Dalleinf · Post by **Dalleinf** » Sun Jun 19, 2022 8:41 am

Mostly straight braid as the line lasts so long that I rarely need to change line.
If not straight braid then I use straight mono or straight FC.

Fishing4Fun · Post by **Fishing4Fun** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 11:45 am

With the exception of frogs, all casting gear is mono or floro or copoly only with none of this braid to a leader crap.

For spinning I much prefer braid to a leader for casting and line management. Some of mine have mono or floro but not many.

SteveSchmelzle · Post by **SteveSchmelzle** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 1:18 pm

56 current rod/reel combos.

aside from the wire, leadcore, and copper combo's, it appears 49 of my combo's are braid. A few of them have 50lbs, and the rest have 30lbs braid.

thank god for bulk spools.

I run straight braid on my frogs, poppers, spinner baits and jerk baits...all other setups get a flouro lead. 20lbs flouro until things get thick, then move to 25lbs flouro leads.

grewia · Post by **grewia** » Sun Jul 31, 2022 10:47 pm

Primarily a shore-bound saltwater bay angler (do fish the surf on occasion). Have refined my line approach to braid to fluoro. Works perfectly fine as there's not a lot of hazardous structure where I am, so I can go extremely light. 6-12lb braid to 6-10lb fluoro (~5' fluoro lead). Largest "fish" landed on this was ~60lb (bat ray), was snagged but still a memorable fight.

Only throw horizontal stuff so braid for cast distance, fluoro for abrasion. Light metals (irons, spoons, spinners, etc.) and hardbaits (jerks, cranks, tops) from 5g-12g (lost interest in soft plastics long ago).

The lighter the better so spinning for me because quality of life in heavy wind and low light.

I'm just particular.

trevor60 · Post by **trevor60** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 12:34 pm

I am Braid + mono

Use Berkley big game attached to several different braids Daiwa Samurai, Yo-zuri, and Berkley (x9)
I find mono predictable in it characteristics and visually able to know when it needs to be changed.
Mono has good shock absorption.
Lastly I can tie strong simple connection knots to lure.

Cheers
Trevor

SSS · Post by **SSS** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 4:23 pm

Braid with a fluoro leader 90% of the time. Sufix832 was my main brain for the longest of time, but since last year, i think i finally found something i prefer over it, the Berkley X9.

KP Duty · Post by **KP Duty** » Fri Aug 05, 2022 8:59 pm

Fishing4Fun wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 28, 2022 11:45 am
With the exception of frogs, all casting gear is mono or floro or copoly only with none of this braid to a leader crap.

For spinning I much prefer braid to a leader for casting and line management. Some of mine have mono or floro but not many.

X2. I'm mainly a CXX man, with fluoro on a few j/w rods.

QUAKEnSHAKE · Post by **QUAKEnSHAKE** » Sat Aug 06, 2022 8:57 am

Spinning Nanofil
Casting braid

sbd3 · Post by **sbd3** » Mon Aug 08, 2022 2:57 pm

I picked straight fluoro only because it's on the rod that spends the most time in my hands which is my mh/f jiggin n riggin rod, but I have 5 current main rigs with a variety of different lines on them; another shorter mh/f casting rod with braid for topwater stuff, a medium/fast all-purpose casting rod with copoly, and two spinning outfits that both run braid to leader.