I kayak fish and am trying to avoid adding an entirely new setup just for bladed jigs. I currently throw both topwater (spook/plopper/buzz) and spinner/bladed jig on my 7’2” MHMF St Croix Victory casting rod w 15 lb mono.

I’m wondering if instead of adding an entirely separate casting setup with fluoro if I could simply use copoly, best of both worlds perhaps? Low stretch (driving those large single hooks home) and floating (topwater.)

I use yo zuri hybrid copolymer on almost all of my top water rods, works great. Diameter is pretty big so I usually treat the 10 like 12, 12 like 15 and so on. The 15lb is roughly same diameter as 20lb fluoro.

Co-poly is a good compromise for both uses. Compare diameters. Yo Zuri is a proven and my CP of choice. It’s on all my grandsons’ casting reels.

I just use small diameter mono. 6lb mono in most domestic brands is ludicrously strong because it's so underrated. I'm not saying I always use something that small, but to put this in perspective line that is sold as 17lb here is sold as 29lb in Europe for the same line in the same diameter.

With mono, most of the downsides like stretch and manageability get greatly diminished as you decrease in diameter. I go up as I need more abrasion resistance.

Contrary to most people, flouro is the line of the big 3 that I don't use. I think it is incredibly overrated with the most downsides.

I have Hybrid on multiple casting rods and mono on the ones that don’t. I currently only have braid on my spinning rods. Nothing has flouro on it.

I have really like Suffix ProMix in a few different weights. YMMV

Can you jump up in diameter on your mono? That should accomplish lower stretch and floating. If not, yes to copoly. I like McCoy. But I also haven't tried the other brands suggested above.

This year I am straight braid for everything. However yo zuri hybrid in 10lb never let me down, it will do what your looking for.

Just keep using your 15lb mono

I am trying the kastking tripolymer line. So far after using it once it casts really well and seems to not have bad memory. We will see over time how it does. The 17 pound I got has a 12 pound diameter, so we will see how strong it is

5 hours ago, QUAKEnSHAKE said:

Just keep using your 15lb mono

You don’t think copolymer would outperform it for these applications?

47 minutes ago, Bass-Addict said:

You don’t think copolymer would outperform it for these applications?

Most of the monofilament brands you come across are copolymers. That's why they each can sell you a half dozen lines all behaving differently.

Monofilament simply means "one filament" or really one extruded strand. Technically, flourocarbon is a monofilament it is just specifically made from polyvinylidene fluoride.

What is sometimes referred to as copolymer is really a cofilament line, generally composed of nylon and flouro and often marketed as a 'hybrid'.

The marketing is confusing because monofilament lines won't always let you know they're copolymers. They will, however, quickly point out their line is 50% better in all respects to everyone else's.😉

As to hybrid line effectiveness, opinions vary greatly and it's something you really need to try yourself. Some people really love certain brands and some people really, really don't.

Why don't you just use P Line Hydrofloat? It's been around for years now, and the salmon/steelhead anglers have used it for their float fishing presentations in rivers and tributaries. It also has a low stretch rate. Being a multi-species angler, I have found there is more cross-species uses for rods, reels, line and other tackle if you just look past the word "bass".

15 lb mono is perfectly fine for bladed jigs. I mainly throw them on 15 lb Izorline, but drop down to 12 lb mono for Colorado River lakes.