Lottabass

Thank you! This is just the intelligent, thoughtful discussion I was hoping for! I will use braid with no leader as much as I can this year and report the results back here. Open water is probably weeks away here in Iowa...I can't wait to get started!

This is all great info. My 2 cents worth will be short. If you fish a jig all day and catch the five fish that you felt bite it, then you missed the other fifty that bit without you knowing it.....

First of all, thank you for your replies! This is my first post on this forum. I have been using a flouro leader on the braid on my spinning reel when in clear water. I do this because it seems the thing to do. All the pros do it but they are selling line. I can't bring myself to believe that bass won't bite because they see your line. What do you think?