What's your favorite kind of braided line?

[lokidog]

Skillet, I used these for a while, thought they worked great, then had a day where we broke off eight or nine of them on the strike.  I think I forgot which direction to wrap and was doing it backwards or something.  This was also with mono at the time.  I haven't used them since.

I use the Scotty clips now, they are fast to clip and I only seem to not be able to keep my 50# PP in one that is older and not as tight.  If I use that one with a smaller dodger, it works fine.  The rubber band idea might refurbish that one, but at about $5 from outdoor Emporium in, I think I will just retire it.

I had a few fail to releases with these at first as well, but quickly discovered it was me not putting enough pressure on the rod as I was sending them down.  If you wind the line on backwards (I mighta done that once or twice as well), it will  pop the bobbin out but won't let the line off of it... like chinese finger cuffs! 

If I was using the 50# PP, I might be more inclined to use the scotty's, but since I stick with the 30/8 for low drag through the water, I've had to learn how to use these and really like 'em now.

You get out fishing yesterday?  My bro put a little 11# king in the boat at Thatcher Pass.

Nice, nope, I was staining a deck.  Back at it again shortly.  I started a thread for fishing reports up here, hope people report on it.

[Button Nubbs]

Take the section of braid your gonna put in the clip and double it over itself and twist it up then clip it.

[Cleve]

Cleve- do you have any backing on your reel? Braid won't grab a spool like mono does and will slide around on a bare reel. You can fix it by either putting some mono on your spool as backing or what I like to do is put a tab of surgical tape on my spool before I run the line on to it. The braid will bite or hold the tape much better than a bare spool.

Never even though about the tape idea. Duh! Thanks for the tip! I will try it.

[plunker01]

I like the power pro superslick blue. I do a lot of bank fishing and its nice being able to use braid and still be able to slide down a flat fish or something and with regular braid I can still do it but it tends to not want to slide down the line as easy

[addicted2hunting]

power pro.

[elkfins]

I vote for Jerry Brown solid as well.

50 for tuna, 65 for hali & bottom fish.
I use Mono for salmon.

One good hint I learned recently is to use different colors on different reels... makes it easier to see the tangles when fish cross lines.