Got into some good fish suspended in timber in about 15 FOW. Timber was thick. CRig slow through timber/Brush tops would trigger bite but I kept breaking leader. 50# braid mainline to 15lb floro.Break-offs. 50% braid main to 20# Floro. Break-offs. 50# main to 20#Big game mono. Break-offs. Shortened leader to dang near 1ft to keep fish from wrapping me before I felt bite. Same. Set drag as loose as I dared not to load up too heavy. Broke off about 8 fish in 2 days. Caught a bunch too. Checked for frays often. After last break-off went to 50# main to 20# braid leader... no bites. Suggestions?

sounds to me like there may be something else down there besides wood that is causing the break-offs.

Very cool pattern you found there

The most abrasion resisting 20lb line I�ve tried is pline CXX copoly. I wouldn�t use it as a mainline (memory) so the first thing I�d try would be braid mainline to pline cxx leader

If you�re still having issues, instead of running a true crig, I�d use bobber stoppers above and below the weight (instead of a swivel below a freely moving weight). This will negatively impact your lure presentation, but you will fish more efficiently through the tree tops (less hang ups)

Slow rolling a spinner bait, slow swimming a swim bait, swim jig, or trig through the tree tops are other thing I�d try if still having issues with a bobber stopped crig

Lake Naconiche... not sure Lake is old enough to have too much debris. Unless all the fish were 7#+ breaking me. Did have some good load ups on most of break-offs. The bites I�m talking about were definitely fish. Not the ole line sliding down a horizontal limb fooler.

Maybe try a power drop shot on a baitcaster with 15 pound test or higher line with a 1/4oz elongated drop shot weight. I would use an Owner rigging hook and tx.pose the bait and drag it through the timber. The size of the hook will depend on what bait you decide to throw. I use a 1/0 for finesse worms, a 2/0 for trick worms and the 1/4oz weight on both set ups. I use a 2/0 owner J hook for drop shotting a Zoom super fluke with 15# test fluorocarbon line. All three rigs work well on Fork.

Naconiche is a very good lake with tons of timber in it.

Nature of the beast. Been there done that at Amistad. I had the best luck with 17lb Seaguar Invis X leader. Just be thankful for what fish you catch out of those jungles.

Sounds like some kind of metal or concrete. Same thing happened to me this summer until I figured out it was concrete and rebar. Good fish, just have to be prepared to loos some heart-breakers.

Switch to a light Texas rig. Also, I wouldn't use braid as a main. It takes away any stretch and that little leader is all that gives. Plus braid isn't very abrasion resistant

Braid held up fine... like someone said before. Nature of the beast I guess

Swim a Jig through it on 50 lb braid.. problem solved.

That�s helpful

20lb. fluorocarbon shouldn't break that easily.

Where is the break occurring? Can it be the particular knot you're using?

I tried a bunch of different lines for leaders before I settled on Red Label.

Everytime I tries using braid as main line it broke the leader... i use 12lb fluoro for main line and 15-20 fluoro as leader line (depends on cover fishing on pound line) never again will I use braid for anything except frogs and flipping heavy grass mats/pads...

It broke off at different sections of the leader. Line burn not an issue because I am really careful about that and have never had that issue before. After going over everything again in my head and reading the previous posts I�m pretty sure the fish were taking the bait very softly and I did not feel them at first. When I felt them they were pulling and not sucking it in. What most likely happened was they were softly taking it and swimming back into the jungle and I only felt them when they had already pulled all the slack out and had tight line pressure on me over or around limbs. I did land more once I shortened the leader(partner reminded me of that a couple of days later). If I had to do it over again I should have gone 20# mono to 20% mono on my set-up. Lesson learned and I will be a fisherman for it when money is on the line(no pun intended)
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As for swimming a jig through the jungle to solve the problem...Tried it pretty hard.... they didn�t want that pattern thus my CRig issue. Thanks for all the info and advice.