Lol... I was being dramatic, but thanks for the good math

I just felt like being a smartass.

i dont get the every second or third trip, overkill?

A lot of the time, yes. It is simply overkill. But the thing is, with mono, you can have a whole spool of perfectly great, like new line, but have 1 tiny nick, that reduces the lbs of pull you can put on a fish without breakage, from like 20 lbs, to 5 lbs (just throwing out numbers for an example).

The reason is because mono suffers from the "tear factor"... or in other words, once their is a tiny nick, it can go on and tear all the way through from that point.

With braid, on the other hand (again, just using random numbers to explain the point) lets say you have 50 lb test, which is made up of 50 individual fibers. You could have a nick, which cuts through 10 of those fibers, but you still have 40 lb test to work with. Zero tear factor.

So in a nutshell, even worn out, beat up braid, is a safer bet, than mono which is anything but brand spanking new !

But again, like SirSnook said, mono is ancient history for me.

Peace,

fish

I'm gonna be real fair about this, braid blows mono away especially when it comes to strength. I have found only 2 negatives to braid, most here will not encounter either of them. Very bad line twist while trolling with spoons(ball bearing swivels don't really help)or using lures like my barracuda tubes which spin really fast. Getting line tangled with other lines like on a drift boat, mono is the only way to go for that kind of fishing.

I too went braid several years back, but for a different reason than most. Being I use ultra light for most of my fishing, the small diameter spools found on ul size reels would magnify mono problems. With braid that's all in the past. I liked braid so much on my ul it's on everything I have now.

I still fill my spools halfway with old mono and then top off with braid. I run mono leaders for two reasons - for a little bit of shock absortion on reaction type baits like cranks and the fact that with a 6' leader I can tie numerous baits all day and never lose any braid.

Let's say a 150 yd spool of braid is $15. Spool two reels (using mono backing) and you're set for a few years for $7.50 per reel.

I will add that where I fish there are no rocks to deal with, which I understand to be braid's weakness. You have to consider where you are fishing.

Or go with this: XL and XT.

I wonder why more people don't use original Trilene. I've never had a bad experience with them and they're very cheap and available.

I wonder why more people don't use original Trilene. I've never had a bad experience with them and they're very cheap and available.

My go to mono is Trilene. Like you I never had a bad experience either.If it failed it was because of me not checking the line like I should have. Trilene XT is my first choice.

I'm experimenting with braid again now.Just got some Sufix 832 and will be buying izorline braid as well soon here. One is going my a frog set up the other on a jig set up.