Not realizing it was 80lb Braid I made a bid and won so now I must make the purchase, I thought it read 8lb?

So my question is, is there any disadvantages to using the 80?

Thicker...falls slower...much.  Takes two men and a boy to break....DO NOT get in electric motor or big motor.  Would not work well with a Ned Rig...BUT...there are still a lot of anglers who use it for frogs and A-Rigs....I just use 40.....I can break it much easier and I like the fall rate better.  8 would have been great on your spinning reels.

Not sure...but I don't even use braid that heavy on my pike/musky rods.

 

Some of the dedicated musky guys will say you have to have it...but I've never lost a fish to broken braid.

I know a few guys who use 80# Power Pro exclusively for punching through the heaviest of hydrilla down here. 

They swear by it but they are in the minority. 65# is much more common. 

 

Is it needed? Probably not but there were a few times last year that I had a few concerns about my 65#

 

Its a confidence thing. 

 

 

 

 

 

Mike

Around here its only a-rigs that use that stout of line or on a surf rod. 

Anything over 2 ounces is where i would use it. A-rig, swimbaits, heavy punching, castable sonar etc

I have been using braided lines almost exclusively after I lost my 7th or 8th BIG fish using 17lbs mono. 80lbs Power Pro is the same diameter as 17lbs mono and cuts threw the weeds better and isn't bitten threw nearly as easy. It has NO memory, casts further and smoother and doesn't kink up in ringlets when you pull 10' of it off your reel. The Power Pro Super8 is even better for casting, and from my experience the Nano-fil will out cast them all but only comes up to 17lbs test from what I have seen. Another advantage is being able to buy different colors so you can tell what pound test you have on what rod. You know an obsessive compulsive fisherman when you see he has 8 rods in the boat and a few hundred dollars worth of fishing line in a bag just in case.

80lb is a good punchin line

I have some 80 lb. and I use it on a old baitcaster on my lure  retriever!

11 hours ago, Further North said:

Not sure...but I don't even use braid that heavy on my pike/musky rods.

 

Some of the dedicated musky guys will say you have to have it...but I've never lost a fish to broken braid.

I lost a magnum bulldawg to a backlash that snapped 80 lb braid...  watched it sail off into the sunset. I knew I should've gotten that 100 lb!

1 hour ago, Vilas15 said:

I lost a magnum bulldawg to a backlash that snapped 80 lb braid...  watched it sail off into the sunset. I knew I should've gotten that 100 lb!

Yeah, that'll happen.  A 1 lb. weight at the end of a 9 ft. rod stopped suddenly with a backlash'll snap wire.

 

...I can attest to the fact that even a 4 ¹/₂" Doctor Spoon'll snap 65# braid under those conditions...still goin' up when it cleared the trees on the lake shore...that one may have achieved low earth orbit for a while...