I don't use mono for anything else but leaders when fishing topwater. For fluoro, i like it for squarebills and that's it. Give me braid to a fluoro leader all day every day.

Suffix Braid or PowerPro. 50 lb on baitcasters and 20 on spinning. I keep coming back to braid or braid with a leader in clearer water.  Where I usually fish the water is heavily stained to muddy and I usually skip the leader.  Berkley big game on my wife's Zebco.  I bought her a high end model that was made for salt water and it is extremely smooth.  I like maxima for leaders.

Been using Big Game forever I use it for everything but frogging. Use braid for that on a dedicated frog rod 

I like mono/copoly for finesse presentations. It's more abrasion resistant than light braid, and I think in the proper diameter it makes light baits move more naturally.

8 hours ago, ABU is overpriced said:

I don't use mono for anything else but leaders when fishing topwater. For fluoro, i like it for squarebills and that's it. Give me braid to a fluoro leader all day every day.

 

I'd like to hear your reasoning for using flouro only on squarebills and not on spinnerbaits, diving baits or Flukes ect.

I use fluoro for everything except top water and frogs

Mono - Topwater, Spinner Baits, Crank Baits, Misc Reaction Baits

Flouro - Worms, Jigs, Spinning Reel Leaders 

Braid - Frogs, Flippin' N' Pitchin', Punchin' 

9 minutes ago, RB 77 said:

Mono - Topwater, Spinner Baits, Crank Baits, Misc Reaction Baits

Flouro - Worms, Jigs, Spinning Reel Leaders 

Braid - Frogs, Flippin' N' Pitchin', Punchin' 

That is precisely how I roll 🤙🏼

I'm in the mono camp. Floro is a pain to work with, and I'm still testing braid options but really don't like that I can't break off in some situations and that's close to a deal killer for me. I don't like leaders, an extra point of failure and something Else to fool with instead of fishing. So yeah... Mono

I prefer mono with moving baits IE cranks, square bills, spinner baits and chatter baits.

 

I always use mono while throwing spinner baits and chatter baits.

 

now if i had a whipper cranking rod. i would probably go with flouro, co-polymer, or braid.

generally speaking i like faster action cranking rods so i can get away with mono. 

 

i have 3 rods with mono on them and 2 of 3 have berkley big game in them.  My deep cranking rod has suffix mono. 

 

if you wanted to use mono on a spinning reel i wouldn’t use big game. i’d probably would use the berkley red box XL or blue box XT.