Another braid question. I understand sensitivity if subjective but I'm trying to get an understanding. For bottom contact how much would you said braid to leader increases total sensitivity in say a jig. For example. Is you're using a zodias with braid to leader does that compare to say a glx or nrx with straight floro. Other comparisons by rods are appreciated. Is a fury with braid feel close to an expride with floro and so on?...... 

On slack or semi slack line,  fluoro is more sensitive than braid.  For bottom contact baits. I always use flourocarbon line.

Braid is only more sensitive when the line is relatively tight. It loses nearly all its sensitivity when it goes limp.

 

Fluoro is more dense and rigid than braid.  It's also a single piece.  So it'll conduct vibrations better than braid in most circumstances.  Braid, however is less resistant to stretching.  So if the line is pulled taught enough that introducing vibrations will cause the line to stretch, then braid will eventually start to overtake fluoro, since that stretching can absorb some of the energy of the vibrations and reduce it's transmission.  

 

On a bottom contact bait, you're likely going to be experiencing both conditions on the same cast, often switching back and forth between them while your jigging your bait.  So you can't really say that changing from braid to fluoro, or fluoro to braid will be like changing from one rod to another.  There are areas of overlap between them, but they're not consistent with each other.  

Like Russ E and Bankc said. Was fishing a Senko on a weighted wacky with braid and a short (2-4’) flouro leader yesterday. When it hit submerged vegetation on a tight line I’d get a pronounced tick tick like bluegill were hitting the lure. I don’t know how many times I swung on that until I realized what was happening! When it eventually hung up and I pulled it free the bass slammed it, no doubt about it then.

 

Like previously mentioned, if you get the slightest tug on tight braid, you'll notice it but if there is any slack in the line then there's no real advantage. I'm not sure if fluorocarbon is necessarily more sensitive in these cases, but it becomes very close.

 

So when I use braid, it's either for throwing a frog or a jig or punchin' rig into heavy cover and in such cases I am using more weight than I would use when I am skipping docks with fluorocarbon which works to my advantage as it keeps the line tighter.

I only use braid to leader, and I feel slack hits, and baits touching weeds on the drop all the time.

I can also see the line great using yellow braid.

I'm talking jigs, t rigs, weightless stick worms....that type of stuff.

15 hours ago, Bankc said:

Fluoro is more dense and rigid than braid.  It's also a single piece.  So it'll conduct vibrations better than braid in most circumstances.  Braid, however is less resistant to stretching.  So if the line is pulled taught enough that introducing vibrations will cause the line to stretch, then braid will eventually start to overtake fluoro, since that stretching can absorb some of the energy of the vibrations and reduce it's transmission.  

 

On a bottom contact bait, you're likely going to be experiencing both conditions on the same cast, often switching back and forth between them while your jigging your bait.  So you can't really say that changing from braid to fluoro, or fluoro to braid will be like changing from one rod to another.  There are areas of overlap between them, but they're not consistent with each other.  

OK you have a great answer here to explain the difference in lines, now the better and higher quality your rod is it will allow you to feel the bottom, vegetation, pick-ups, and limbs as you pull thru wood. For me a good rod (best I can afford) coupled with FC line (best I can buy) really lets you develop a feel for what's under the surface that you can't see.  Tight Lines