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Originally Posted by Grateful Dad
Maybe a dumb question, but why would you use braid as a backing, or under a 200 yard topshot of mono? Don't you lose all the benefit of the braid(low stretch, etc.)? Plus, it seems like a pretty expensive backing material, since you're probably not going to have 200 yards of line out at a time, no?
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Grateful dad, all my reels have braid backing---good for 7-8 years manufacturers have told me when used as backing...saves on mono re-spooling with the backing & increases reel line capacity...my 2 cents.....
When I mated on a private boat, I tried to get the boss's son to put on braid backing on 3 Penn Int. 80's and 5 Penn Int. 50's but he wouldn't...the bottom half of the mono on all the reels never left the reel but was stripped every year...tried to tell him they were throwing money & good line away, oh well....
