On your question about switching: yes I pretty much changed to co-poly for almost everything. McCoy's Mean Green is my favorite. All the listed reasons above were why I couldn't get completely comfortable with fluorocarbon line. I liked the sensitivity and limited visibility of the fluro but everything else sucked about it. Tried different brands and settled on Seaguar as the best but it was actually the "least bad" fluro to me. McCoy's co-poly has the increased sensitivity over mono without the extreme "brittle" feeling, less blacklashing and real low memory. I like it especially on my "feel" baits like worms, jigs... but it works well for cranks, spinnerbaits, topwaters....pretty much everything. I still have braid on my Carolina-rig main line and frog rod. Still use 20lb regular old Big Game for swimbaits but on everything else its pretty much co-poly for me. Like Ken said above^^^"caught a zillion fish on fluorescent blue Stren" for more years than lots of y'all have been alive so maybe we fishermen overthink this line thing(ya think?). If there was no such thing as monofilament fishing line right and I invented it I would make a millions $$$. It would be the next greatest, must have, fish catchingest arsenal for that everyone would buy. :-)

Ken , pm sent.

senko95,

It isn't "its" either. It would be "it's."

But, we get what you meant; we get what others misspelling fluorocarbon mean, too.

You are going to have long and restless nights if you think you can correct spelling errors and grammar here. It'll be about as frustrating as . . . fluorocarbon.

Brad

I fish 90% braid... about 3-10 trips i notice a difference. But some lakes i think it matters more consistantly

It is senko9S. But, we get what you meant...

Co-polymer P-Line CXX or Premium. Both very good lines. They seem to bite just as well using P-Line as they do with Fluorocarbon based on my on the water testing at Lake Fork.

I still use fluorocarbon line for my drop shot, C-rig, and other baits where I want the best bottom feel I can have like a football jig, swing head, and shaky head.

Lmao! True! It's too dang hot!!

I was catching 60 fish a day at PK on 15 lb big game, in 20+ Foot visibility. Just use what you have confidence in. When I'm not getting bit the last thing I think of is it's because I'm not throwing fluorocarbon

Leave it? I never even started it. Tried it a few times and felt the advantages didn't outweigh the problems with it.

Never liked it and as long as it stays as stiff as it is these days I never will.

I'm an analogy guy, and I have always felt that golf is a great parallel to fishing.

Ideally, you want to keep a full bag of clubs, and learn every one of them. They all have their specific purpose, and they all will do one particular thing better than any other club.

Same with gear choices in fishing.

Going fishing without a spinning reel is like going to the golf course without a putter. Going fishing without a baitcaster is like going to the course without a driver.

Line choices are the same. I always tell people that they should learn all of the pros and cons with the different types of line, and learn to utilize all of them appropriately.

Keep a full bag of clubs, and learn all of them.

So, to answer the question, for me, I use all of the different types of line and try my best to use the right one for the right application and situation.

A lot of people who bash fluorocarbon line are really "cheap" in everything they do in life, thus they can never get past the cost.

Honestly i just bought my first spool of flourocarbon, I've been flipping with big game for years and I'm tired of the memory. 20 pound big game is awesome for about a week. I don't mind the stretch but and it's strong. But it's like flipping a slinky after a week. I do stretch it out on the lawn but it gets right back to slinky pretty quick.

I switched to braid and like it but in Abilene area there are muddy lake which I'll keep the braid. There are clearer lakes where I feel the braid is too visible. I just used fluorocarbon this weekend and was impressed so far. The only thing that has kept me away are the horror stories.

I'm cheap on certain things and the price has kept me away as some has mentioned. But I think that pros use it for a reason. I'll weigh in my 2 cents after a few months