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Originally Posted by Gerry Zagorski

I like braid when anchored and clamming or chunking since it helps you detect bites.. This time of year when the fish are a little more sluggish it helps alot. When the season wears on and you are live lining bunker and the fish are hiting hard, I think mono is a better choice. Lost way too many fish using braid. Not enough stretch.

For casting and jigging I perfer a spinning rod since they are much easier to cast and you don't have to worry about birds nests. Other then that I use conventional reels.

If you want to cover all your basis with one reel, I would go with a Shimano Spinner Bait Runner set up since you can use it for all sorts of fishing. The bait runner feature is what makes these reels so versital since you can control the line out tension like you can with a conventional reel yet you have the ease of casting with a spinning reel.

couldnt disagree more !!.
Line type should not be just based on How your fishing as mch as what your fishing with rod wise.
live lining I like a glass or composite rod as I have broke way too many Graphite rods with both braid and mono on them on the hookset.

Braid performs VERY well , on those type rods. It offers a much better hook set than mono. and when your drag is set right you just work the fish until its in the boat.
For BIG bass alot less get away with braid than do mono.
And if snag and dropping bunker, braid well out performs mono doing that too.

Many new Baitcasters especially the new low profile work horses also can cast a mile and are pretty fool proof.