Braided vs. Mono on older Spinning reels?

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I'm about 30 minutes from the bay and about 45 from the ocean here, I doubt I'll even bother with the boat this year, it's cheaper to go out on a party boat, their usually not to crowded and so far have stayed around $50 per person. The last I checked, it took me about 23 gal. per hour to run the boat, and with 200 gal. on board, a boat trip would be at least $500 for even a short run, not to metion the slip and maintainance. It's just not going to happen with fuel at $3 plus a gallon, and it's higher at the docks, I would guess closer to $4.50 or so. (When it was only $1/gal on the road, the marina was $1.86 , I don't want to even look now.
All of my vehicles are hard on fuel, this summer is going to hurt, no matter how you look at it. Whether in gas in the boat, gas to get to the water, or simply in the cost of everything that it's going to trickle down to.
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