WHICH BRAID FOR TLD20 FOR MONDAY TRIP...

[slyham775]

WHICH BRAID FOR TLD 20 ON 15KG LIVE FIBRE ROD AND WE WERE THINKING TO BUY A 40LB BRIAD FINN .... we would like some advice on it and some help as well ...... hey do we need some mono line under it ??? have any one seen a pe4 or pe5 briad line ???? please help for the idea ......

p.s. it,s for my bro in law ....

as we are heading outside on a charter on monday so i will need it before sunday cos i have to get it armed and ready to fish ..... Grin

[Sti_Brumby]

You gota have atleast 100mrts on mono first before you put on the braid as braid will slip under pressure. Can't help you on that brand of braid as i've never used it.

Sti

[philip_thomson]

i have never used finn braid however have heard good reports about it.
personally i use bionic braid have it on 4 outfits and it does the job no problems at all. other good braids are platypus super braid have used it on numerous occasions and did the job no problems.

i have a tld 20 on a 15kg live fibre and run 30lb braid. 30lb braid will generally be sufficent

no matter which brand of braid you go for you will need to put some substantial backing on. as braid is generaly 1/3rd the diameter of mono.

therfore 30lb your best choice is to run 300-350m of 30lb mono backing and then run 300m of 30lb braid on the top.

if you go 40lb then run about 200-230m of 40lb mono and then 300m of 30lb braid on top

hope it hasn't confused you

Cheers Phil

[caloundra]

slyham
to work out how much mono to put on
first fill your reel with your braid
them put as much mono on your reel as you need
them take it all off and put on in reverse order
(I use a cordless drill and an empty spool to take the line off)

Daniel

[slyham775]

okay umm another question .... which mono should i use cos there is so many different kind ... as far i head it got to be a hard line is that right as i know some of the mono are soft .... so which mono would do the job ???? thank,s boy,s .............sly <"((><

[philip_thomson]

I use platypus pink. in my experience it has less stretch than other monos ive used, resulting in less line twists and less tangles.

[Fishin_Dan]

Platypus Super 100 is good.

[Huggy_B]

Berkley trilene is easily the best mono I have used, so I would personally recommend that as the backing. But reality is that if you get busted down to the mono, then you are in a whole lot of grief anyways. The backing really serves no other purpose than to allow the braid something to bed in.

I use 80lb fins to jig +30kg sambo's so there are no problems with Fins braid - great stuff in my book. Knots well and hasn't busted on me yet.

[slyham775]

has any one tryed super braid ???? any good cos my bro in law think,s that he should buy them so i would like to find out more about it first as i told him to buy fins braid ..... any suggest ...... but for me i would go for daiwa pe4 with colour change,s

[Huggy_B]

platty super braid is OK, but super thin and cuts like buggery.........stick with Fins IMO (and I have both!)

[banshee]

Make sure that the charter opperator allows braid on his charters, some don't.