This is inspired by the other line thread that's happening now.  Anyone just using braid? I don't mean using braid where everyone uses braid (heavy cover, topwater, etc).  I mean worms, jigs, dropshot, the whole shebang.

Just topwater.  Braid to leader for jigs and worms.

Moving baits (spinners, chatters, etc) or heavy cover - I use straight braid. Everything else is either braid-to-leader, straight FC, mono or YZH.

My 6’11 poison adrena mh spinning rod runs 20lb power pro max quatro on my vanford 2500. I use it with everything basically, I feel like it works for me on that setup so I use it wherever I go. Then my lews pro ti has 30 lb sunline plasma braid on it I use that for top water jigs worms. I mainly let the cover decide what I am going to bring with me though.

All my bait-casters have braid, and only braid. Most are 30-40lb braid...PowerPro and old Fenwick Iron Thread.

 

I fish spinner baits, jigs, t-rigged worms, cranks, ploppers, frogs, buzz-baits, power-shot, etc. with this set up.

Only punchin, frogging and on top

 

 

 

Mike

Heck no . 6 pound mono for spinning and 12 pound for bait casting

 

thick aquatic vegetation is the only time I’ve found braid gives any advantage 

I use straight braid all the time for both BC & spinning.

I hate shredding braid on rocks so nope

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

Heck no . 6 pound mono for spinning and 12 pound for bait casting

 

thick aquatic vegetation is the only time I’ve found braid gives any advantage 

Word.  ?

Since I've became proficient tying the fg knot, I've been using 30lb braid to 12lb yo zuri leader..

All braid all the time for me. Baitcaster or spinning. I just can’t stand having stretchy lines.

No! 5 lb Copley Maxima UG and 7 lb FC spinning, 12 lb FC jigs and worms,11 lb Armillo bait casting.

Tom

I have braid on my punch rig. Everything else has mono in it.

5 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

thick aquatic vegetation is the only time I’ve found braid gives any advantage

^^ This ^^

 

These days, there is no single, all-purpose universal line.  I don't think I've used only one type of line on all my reels since the '90's.

I use braid 90% of the time for all applications except jigs

My topwater rod which also pulls double duty for the odd time I want to chuck a squarebill has mono. Everything else is straight braid. I'll run a flouro leader if I'm drop shotting but that's almost never.

11 rods in my boat today all straight braid. 

All braid but 4 rods .. my CB rod is straight Flouro , another baitcaster braid to flouro leader and 2 spinning are 15lb braid to Flouro leader. 

What do you 100% braid guys do when you get hung up in deep water? 

Wrap line around my pliers and pull until something gives. 

22 minutes ago, PourMyOwn said:

What do you 100% braid guys do when you get hung up in deep water? 

Break out the wench cause my palomar knots don’t break?

Nope

All but two are braid

51 minutes ago, PourMyOwn said:

What do you 100% braid guys do when you get hung up in deep water?

In all seriousness, with 50+ lb braid, you can cut your hands up pretty badly, even 30 lb can be tough (I'm almost always with a leader).  The places I fish with the heavy braid I bring an entrenching tool (folding shovel for non-military types) or a baseball bat.  They're not necessarily just to break hung braid - they're used on any snakeheads I catch too.