10-11-2004, 05:04 AM
LOL! I know what you mean. I've watched the line peel off a reel more than once. And, there is no reason you can't put one or two hundred yards of mono at the head to be safe. However, my theory is that if what you start out with on the reel can't do the job, don't put it on at all. And that boils down to the equipment too. What are you fishing for, and, are you even equiped for it. If you're using a tiny reel, and having to use braided line to make up for the difference in order to buy enough time to catch him, then you've either got wood for sport or you ran out of mono to spool it up with. And another thing about braid. Alot of people use those darn roller eyes(I use to), nothing likes to get hung in the crack of a roller eye more than braided line. People make the mistake of using a 50 to 80 pound class rod with 50 pound braid. ( I DID) They don't realize that the braid is so signifigantly smaller in diameter, it fits quite snugly in the crack of a roller eye. Shortly after it sticks you can expect either the rod tip to snap or the line to break. (more often than not the braid outlast the rod tip) So, if you're not an experiance angler, i'd say braid isn't the way to go. And even though it has the advantage of the smaller diameter, to me it doesn't out way the many advantages of mono.
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