I hardly use a spinning rod any more but want to be able to downsize my baits and was probably going to purchase a Gloomis GLX jig and worm rod for weightless texas rigs/ned rig/ other weightless plastics.

 

I was planning on going Braid to fluorocarbon but was not sure how braided line will effect the higher modulus rod with the lighter line rating.  I just do not want to overload the rod. 

 

Any thoughts?

It's a personnel thing but on my bass spinning rods I pretty much stick with ten pound braid maybe eight in winter and six to twelve pound leader depending on waters fished.  I also use a simple double uni and it works well....good luck.

I am weird in that I have fished 8lb mono on my three spinning reels on the Tidal Potomac for 18 years and have never seen a need to change. It never seems to detract from catching bass from the Potomac grass beds.

I too like 8 and 10 pound mono on my spinning gear (I use Sufix Siege). When I used light braid (10 pound Sufix 832) it cast great etc. but I was getting problems with wind knots, so I switched back to mono.

Set your drag to 1/3 the weakest link in the system, whether that be line, knots strength, or rod.  That way, you'll minimize any failures.

1 hour ago, Hulkster said:

wind knots

What is this?

 

Or did you mean problems with knots with the light braid

WInd knots are what happens when braid gets twisted.  The solution is the same for twist for any line: troll it out, reel back in using some pressure between your fingers.

For spinning I have too many problems when I use mono or fluoro. For that reason I use a light braid, 15lb or so, then add a leader if I feel the need. 

 

Tactical Bassin' has me really diggin' the braid to mono leader, it seems to be somewhat illogical, but it really works. 

I’ve switched back and forth from 20# + leader to straight 8# fluorocarbon. I like the versatility of the braid to use different leaders for different lures, but I’ve had good luck with straight seaguar red label 8# as long as I manually close the bail as soon as my lure hit the water to avoid getting the loops. Maybe a little better slackline sensitivity for the weightless plastics with the fluoro as well. 

Just use a lighter lb braid which has a smaller diameter than the equivalent mono/fluoro.  I use 10-15lb braid almost across the board on my spinning reels, and use a lighter leader as needed.