With how clear and shallow these streams are, would I benefit from the low visibility of fluro or is the “invisibility” factor overstated and makes minimal difference, and the abrasion resistance of mono is more important?

I use mono on my creek setups.

Its easier to manage and cheaper. Plus, being such light line, it would be hard for the fish it see anyway.

Also any kink in light fluro could lead to broken line. Mono is more forgiving.

24 minutes ago, mrpao said:

I use mono on my creek setups.

Its easier to manage and cheaper. Plus, being such light line, it would be hard for the fish it see anyway.

Also any kink in light fluro could lead to broken line. Mono is more forgiving.

Yeah that makes sense, I was sort of leaning that direction too. Thanks!

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I'm not a fan of fluro at all for anything. I only use monofilament line and 2000/2500 size reels are the smallest I would use.

Neither, I'd use braid with a leader. If I have to choose between mono and fluoro, I would go with mono, which has less memory problems than fluoro.  Fluoro on a 1000 size small diameter spool would be a disaster IMO.

If you're fishing light lures, threadline fluoro or threadline braid is going to get down faster.  At the same time, threadline braid is going to float well for topwaters.  

If you fish with good habits, threadline braid will always be superior.  If you don't, mono or fluoro will be better.  

Bass & sunfish are less line shy, but trout are VERY line shy.  I found that out the hard way! 

I've always used mono.  Four to six lb line depending on the cover in the creek.

Tried fluoro once with disastrous results.  Too stiff on a small reel so mono is what I use.  Usually 6 lb for bass fishing and Stren Magnathin 4 lb for bream.

On 4/9/2023 at 12:58 PM, Alex from GA said:

Tried fluoro once with disastrous results.  Too stiff on a small reel so mono is what I use.  Usually 6 lb for bass fishing and Stren Magnathin 4 lb for bream.

Tbh I only use fluro for leader material on my finesse setup, I just don’t like how it feels or casts as a main line and how brittle it is. You get one nick or some minor fray you lose a trophy or a $20 lure.

I'm in the braid with fluoro leader camp for my ultralight trout rigs. 

 

Since I was a kid I used 4lb Berkley Fireline to a barrel swivel then 18" or so of leader off of that.  Add just enough weight just above the swivel (now I use the braid tag end) to feel it bouncing along the bottom. Late last summer I tried some of the ultralight Hitena braid, airbraid razor I think it was, 3lb and 5lb test.  I tried the Hitena for a morning.  I could not get knots in the 3lb nor 5lb test to hold and I was constantly breaking the line at the knot in my attempts to tie them (tried improved clinch with a variety of number of wraps and the double overhand surgeon knot too).

 

Then the torrential rain came and I drove out to Cabela's and had them strip the Hitena off my two reels and replaced it with 6lb Suffix 131.   So far so good with the Suffix 131 but I think it's a little stiffer than my old 4lb Berkley Fireline, I may swap back.  This is all on a 500 (JDM Soare XR) and a 1000 (Stella FK, yeah, didn't need it, I just really wanted to try one) reel. 

I use co polymer for these application and I really like it. It is stronger for creek and also more invisible vs mono.