Bream Line Pain In the Butt!!

[geoff72]

dont know if this helps but i had pink fireline on and lost nearly the whole spool to air knotts in a couple of months,switched back to green and not a knott since,i spool my own reels and did nothing different when putting on the pink. spoke to some guys in tackle shops and they said the pink is not a smooth as the green.

[Jeremy87]

I know braid casts further but for breaming I cannot remember the last time I cast to my max distance to hit a snag or whatever. When you say feel what does braid have that mono doesnt is it the stretch in mono? If so mono has to be pulled before it stretches so should feel the bite anyway, a friend of mine says with braid you have just spent $100 compared to $20 for something which does the same job so it is highly likely that you will think its better or you look like a porker something similar to the placebo effect. Braid has its place in fishing but my opinion is good marketing is its main advantage over mono.

I make max casts all the time when chasing bass and when chasing bream on the flats. The number of fished that get spooked because of the boat/canoe is ridiculous so i try to put in as many long casts as i can, an extra 5 metres can often be the difference between a hit and a follow. It's a combination of stretch and diametre that gives braid better feel. A thicker line with greater stretch is going to create more belly in your line which means the bite has to be more dramatic to take out the belly and send the shock wave up your line. This is pretty much common knowledge, its why people fish with lighter poundage line and the reason you recommended low stretch mono. The stretch factor comes comes into play mostly when working lures, greater tension means your rod movements are reflected by you lure movements. To me it sounds like you've never used braid before, I don't make any comments of this web site unless its from personal experience, 60 bucks is about the most you can spend on enough braid to fill a bream reel. If you want to chuck 300 yards of 50lb jigging braid on a big bluewater reel then yeh $100-120 is probably more like it. Mono has not by any means been rendered useless by braid, sometimes extra stretch is important but when it comes to fishing for bream owith rubbers you need all the sensitivity you can get.

[boombah]

Fire line has an advantage over traditional braids as it is springier and flyes off the real easier....once it is worn in......braids are more supple but tends to come off in loops when doing extremely light sp work etc......Hint....I use a Daiwa GC 50 closed face real with 4 lb fireline.....these quality closed face reels outperform normal eggbeaters because line release is so controlled that you dont have the same looping and birdsnest issues that light lure work can produce....the main negative is that they have a restricted line capacity so you will be in trouble if something larger jumps on for a ride....