After seeing a 5lber snap new 15lb CXX this past weekend in a tournament, I've lost confidence in CXX for anything but swimbaits.

30lb CXX for me.

Wow...this is the first post I've read in an online forum about CXX breaking (seriously...ever!). I've used 15lb CXX for 4yrs, and it is the only line I can't break by hand when I get hung up (even with my shirt wrapped around my hand). I actually have to grab my needle nose pliers. Must have been a kink in it or something...it is quite simply the strongest and most abrasion resistant line out there. CXX guys won't claim it to be a limp line...it's hardcore and unforgiving. If CXX was a smokeless tobacco, it would be Copenhagen. A smoke? No doubt a Camel filterless. These swimbait guys are more man than me fishing the high lb test CXX...I bet I could repel down a cliff with the 25lb .  30lb CXX Fourbizz?!  I think it would ruin the cutters on my needle nose.  

20 lb CXX is what I've been using.

KVD L&L  seems to help a lot. I get more out of my line when I use it.

I fished P-Line CXX for several years before switching to Yo-Zuri Hybrid.

"Breakage" and "toughness" were never an issue.

8-)

Stay with CXX. I have never broke off a fish, or a snag with 25lb. I use braid for my bbz shad floater, but thats about it.

why the braid for your bbz shad ???

Because I toss it on my flippin stick and I am too lazy to change out my line. Works great. Bill Simental uses braid for the floater too.