Ok, I have five or six spinning reels with line from 5 pound mono to 15 pound braid. I have one baitcaster that I want to use with crankbaits, mostly shallow to medium diving, and jigs and spinnerbaits that are too heavy for my spinning rods.

So, if you had to pick a line and test for just one baitcaster and you wanted it to be versatile, what line and test would you pick? What mono test would be best for what I want? 14 pound, 15, 17, 19, 20, or 12?

I would go with 12# flouro, myself.

14-15 pound copolymer

12lb Yozuri hybrid.

I would say either 20-30lb braid or 12lb copolymer.

10 Yozuri or maybe 12 depending on structure & cover..

15 lb seagar invisix good for everything but topwater in my opinion

I like 14 lb. Sunline Sniper as an all around line. Has the line diameter of 12 lb. fluoro in most other brands and has great strength and abrasion resistance.

Berkely Big Game 15# test

Very abrasion resistant, probably the best on the market.

Cost effective, about $8 a 650 yd spool

I find the more I fish it the less it coils

Unbeleivable knot strength

12 lb xl .

12 - 15lb copoly for the application mentioned

A lot depends on the type of rod you are using. If you have a very fast, heavy action, then you will need some stretch in your line. If not, you'll be ripping hooks out and not landing very many fish. (Plus, if you hang up, you're probably going to loose that bait!) If the rod has a more moderate/medium fast and has some good tip action (as well as backbone), then you may be able to get away with braid. For heavy applications, such as large swimbaits or heavy jigs, I actually prefer a 25# quality monofilament. And I'll still tie a fluorocarbon leader to it, for the abrasion resistance.

12 pound test on your baitcasters.

 

Double check your rod's specifications to make sure it can handle 12 pound test.

 

Fluorocarbon line is what I would suggest.

12lb Yozuri hybrid.

My fun fishing gear for bank fishing and stuff like that is 2 rods. A 7' casting snd 6'6 spinning rod. I use 12 and 8# Big Game respectively. Works fine. Cheap. Breakable if necessary when bank fishing. Tough when hitting cover and hooked up.

10-12lb hybrid or cxx

20-30 lb braid.  You can work top water, cranks, and soft platics with it.   Fluoro won't work on top water, and mono has to much float to work bottom baits and cranks.  Just my .02

I see a lot of recommendations for that Yo-Zuri hybrid line. I guess I'll either try that in 12 pound or Maxima 14 pound. My original plan was to use 14 pound Sufix Elite mono but a lot of my spinning rods have Sufix elite on them and I'm wanting to try something different.

20-30 lb braid. You can work top water, cranks, and soft platics with it. Fluoro won't work on top water, and mono has to much float to work bottom baits and cranks. Just my .02

LMAO! I've caught thousands of bass including DDs on Berkley Big Game!

20-30 lb braid. You can work top water, cranks, and soft platics with it. Fluoro won't work on top water, and mono has to much float to work bottom baits and cranks. Just my .02

Uh, do you care to explain how I have caught thousands of many fish spieces on Mono.? Co-poly, Stren, Big Game.. Trigging, flipping, topwater, jigging? Maybe you should revise your statement...

I like 12# Siege Neon Tangerine.  Easy to see.  Handles well.  Some other great lines I will be trying....Silver Thread AN40, McCoy Mean Grean and Izorline XXX.  I feel 12# is more than adequate in my area unless throwing into the slop.

12lb for me for mono line for a do all if I was going to pick one.

To answer your question I would use 12lb.

12lb Yozuri hybrid.

 

That works!

 

 

 

 I picked up some Grand Slam Copolymer Fluoro coated 15 lb line while was visiting Tennessee.  I got home today here in Indiana and since the weather was so nice I yanked off the 19 pound line I had and put on this Grand Slam.  I tied on a practice plug and thought the line handled nicely.  Later I want to pond and used a heavy jig and the line handled nicely.  Then a Rapala jerk bait and it back lashed some.  Then I tried a KVD 1.5 square bill and I could cast it but not that far.  

 

 One thing I noticed, I could feather the line a lot better than the 19 pound line had on.  I would say feathering the line and monitoring the line with my thumb during the cast became 80% simply taking off that 19 pound mono and putting on 15 pound Grand Slam copolymer.  

 

 Will 12 pound Yo-zuri Hybrid handle even better than that 15 pound Grand Slam copolymer line?