spoonminnow
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The first common skate I caught was in 300' of tidal water - on mono. It took me the first 20 minutes of the "fight" to take the stretch out of the line and realise there was something alive on my hook!I agree with your sentiments Kev. It is seems to be an American thing.
Regards braid; I do see uses for it in the sort of fishing that we do over here in Europeland. I have spools with braid on some fixed spool reels specifically for fishing at distance with float or ledger / feeder tactics. The finer diameter for the breaking strain is very handy when fishing the far side of a flowing river. And I like the lack of stretch when ledgering or float fishing for roach. Same when using a drifting float for pike and zander. Another use is for catfish when the diameter of mono required for the mainline would lead to coils springing off the reel.
When Spiderwire first came out I immediately saw the benefits for inshore boat fishing. While my club colleagues stuck with their 30lb class gear with 16 or 20 oz weights and had to wind 90 feet up after a bite to see if there was a fish on, I was using a 6lb class pier rod with an 8oz weight and getting wrap rounds from 3lb codling
No wonder you keep breaking your landing netsThe first common skate I caught was in 300' of tidal water - on mono. It took me the first 20 minutes of the "fight" to take the stretch out of the line and realise there was something alive on my hook!
After that I changed to braid and the first fish I caught on that was a 200 lb+ porbeagle, probably the first ever caught on braid. That fight hurt me despite my using a longer, more flexible rod than was the norm. But I had the porgie at the boat after just a 30 minute fight, quite quickly compared to some. After that I used the same Dynon brand braid for much of my sea fishing, shore and boat.
So I just got used to it, I guess, but found many awful brands along the way! Pick a bad braid and you will go back to mono very quickly!
We aren’t allowed to use Jaw Spreaders/Gags in the UK as they are deemed as being inhumane and not even sold in our tackle shops.One hell of a fight to boot! Good thing I didn't forget the jaw spreaders.