![]() ![]() The actual choice comes down to personal feelings and finances. Both will get you from A to B perfectly well, and both will do so with a degree of "feel", but the Range Rover is just going to be a "better" all round experience. ![]() As I said, I am not into the technicalities of braid, but fishing with 8 strand braid just feels a whole lot "better" to me - kind of like I would imagine going from my Ford Focus Estate (radical) to something like a top of the pile Range Rover. ![]() I just don't get wind knots if I underfill my spools (check the line level in the top photo) and make sure to wind in under some kind of tension from time to time if I am imparting a lot of different movements to a lure. This might be because they seem to lie on the spool very well (if that makes sense), but they just fly off when you really launch into a cast. But I do have a very specialist braid here to test out soon that might just be worth looking at for something like fishing soft plastics for wrasse right into the middle of the rough stuff.Ĩ strand just feels like silk to me, whereas 4 strand feels a tiny bit "coarse" (above) - not that this matters one bit I grant you, but I am utterly convinced that these 8 strand braids cast better. But let's face it here and admit that braids just aren't as good as mono for overall abrasion resistance. I might be wrong, but I believe that 4 strand braid has the edge over the 8 strand when it comes to abrasion resistance - and there are times when I am still going to choose to fish with the really good 4 strand braids because they offer me a bit more of a buffer. But when fishing over what might be termed "heavy ground", I can't help but want a little "extra" to help me wrench lures out of snags and also to provide that little bit more abrasion resistance. But both brands' 15lb and 20lb must be just about perfect for "finesse" bass fishing - the new me perhaps ?!!ĭo we need 30lb mainline for bass fishing ? Well the fish aren't going to break it, that's for sure. I need to use and abuse the new Daiwa stuff long term before I am able to trust it like I trust the Varivas stuff. But you can't get that particular Varivas 8 strand in 30lb - the new Daiwa stuff comes in a huge range of breaking strains though, and in due course I will get my hands on some of the 30lb stuff and see if it does for me what I think it will. Much as I can't speak highly enough of the awesome Varivas Avani Sea Bass Max Power PE in 20lb that I have been using and abusing for a while now (and I love it to bits and will continue to use it because it's just amazing stuff and I trust in it completely), in a perfect world I would love to be able to get hold of it in 30lb and then really take advantage of extra strength and a bit more "ruggedness", but still having an incredibly low diameter. A lower diameter mainline makes sense to me when you are casting and working all kinds of lures, and especially in cross winds and fast currents. But not for all of it.Ībove is a close up of this brand new Daiwa Tournament 8 Braid that I picked up in France (don't worry, you can get in green as well) - two years ago and this sort of line would have freaked the hell out of me, because firstly you need to get your head around how thin a true 8 strand braid is when you compare it to a more "regular" (but very good) 4 strand braid. Tim Griffin asked the question in a comment on a recent post - "what difference could you notice with the 8 strand over the 4 strand braid ?" And it got me thinking.I am not a technical wizard on all things braid, not in the least bit in fact, but I know what I like, and I very much like using 8 strand braid for a lot of my lure fishing. ![]()
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