03-12-2012, 11:16 PM
The braid floats and slides on top of the water better, and sticks to it less. This allows you to mend your line easier, and need to less often, so that you can get more natural, uninhibited floats. Also it has no stretch, so you can have good firm hooksets even on long floats or when you have a bunch of line laying on the water.
Even though braid boasts otherworldy pound tests, it can still be cut easily on sharp rocks. It tends to hold more water, thus leading to more frozen guides and reels in colder condtions. It can also really foul up a hole if long sections of it are broken off on snags. Then it takes longer to deteriorate, and easily tangles and cuts of lines of others trying to fish the hole. It is usually very limp causing you to get more undetected loops around your guides and rod tip, and backlashes can be next to impossible to pick out.
If it weren't for some of the benefits that you pick up by using braid for bobber fishing, I would use mono exclusively. I personally like the stretch of monofilament, especially when fighting fish. It is forgiving and really serves as an extension of my rod, and an aid to my drag.
I probably didn't capture the whole picture, plus others might disagree with me, so feel free to chime in. But those were the main things that stood out in my mind.
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Even though braid boasts otherworldy pound tests, it can still be cut easily on sharp rocks. It tends to hold more water, thus leading to more frozen guides and reels in colder condtions. It can also really foul up a hole if long sections of it are broken off on snags. Then it takes longer to deteriorate, and easily tangles and cuts of lines of others trying to fish the hole. It is usually very limp causing you to get more undetected loops around your guides and rod tip, and backlashes can be next to impossible to pick out.
If it weren't for some of the benefits that you pick up by using braid for bobber fishing, I would use mono exclusively. I personally like the stretch of monofilament, especially when fighting fish. It is forgiving and really serves as an extension of my rod, and an aid to my drag.
I probably didn't capture the whole picture, plus others might disagree with me, so feel free to chime in. But those were the main things that stood out in my mind.
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