You think Fluoro won't turn into a slinky???? It's memory is a primary drawback!

Most vegetation you might flip should be so cluttered under the surface that the braid gets lost in that clutter. If you flip sparse wood, I could see concern on the angler's part, but never saw a survey indicating what the fish think.

Learn to tie a blood knot. Put a 25# leader at the end of braid. Said leader should be short enough that you don't typically pull it into the tip guide with each flip. (That won't hurt a properly tied blood knot, but it does get annoying when flipping.) This will give you a few feet of leader and lets you retie numerous times before you will need to put a new leader on the rig.

My personal choice is to use P-Line 25# CXX copolymer as my leader (in cases where I do use a leader while flipping) since it offers advantages over mono such as Big Game, including sensitivity. Any decent copolymer will exceed pure mono in traits we would like for flipping, in general.

I've left fluorocarbon for straight braid. Similar prices and since we live in Texas, the water clarity isn't too much of an issue. When it does become an issue, I use my leftover fluorocarbon as a leader.

I put blue Big Game on a couple rods just so I could see my line better. The rest have fluorocarbon . It seemed to me that there is a distinct difference in feel between it and fluorocarbon. The fluorocarbon seems to give me a better feel of the bottom. Both were 15# test.

I have about $130,000 invested between my truck and my boat ...... Fluoro sucks!

All I can say is 2 guys with equal skill fishing in the same boat and 1 is using fluro and the other isn't....you will find out real quick which line catches more fish.

I was told when I was 13 by a pro - "line is the absolute cheapest thing you will ever find in fishing. Always use quality line."
I have found that, even with the high cost of some line, that this has been absolutely true. Your line and the knot is the only thing keeping you connected to your $7 spinnerbait, $15 topwater, $20 crankbait and your $50 swimbait. Yet we complain that a spool of floro cost $25.

I have seen that proved wrong many times

This!!!!!

Been using fluro for years and learned quickly that if you kink it you have trouble. On the other hand it's tough, castes easily, and strong enough that anything over 20lb is overkill. Have used the boat to break it off a stump. With the exception of top water it's fluro for me and see no reason to give it up.

line memory sucks with Flouro , but the advantages of low stretch , low visibility are worth it , especially when it comes to confidence . Someone on the forum had some really good advice on using Flouro on spinning rods ---- take out your rod/s the day before a trip , take out about 120 feet of line and tie it to something so you can " stretch " out the line . Also carefully run a wet wash cloth over the lines as it is stretched out , affectively taking out all the memory .
I tried this and took my son in law out for his first ever bass fishing trip . Basically a complete novice . Not one time did he have " loop" problems and unspooling issues on all three spinning rods he used --- and he ended up catching 10 nice bass and is now totally hooked on bass fishing

I've gone back and forth, back and forth. Every time I come back to Fluoro for a reason. The benefits outweigh the negatives.

mono - topwater popper, worm, walking spook type
braid - frog
flouro - Crig with mono leader
flouro - worm, jig, crank bait, drop shot, shaky head

Does anyone paint the last 3ft or so of their braid if running straight? I would much rather run straight braid than floro like i have. Minus things such as drop shot, shakey head, ect.. Im talking more for my Texas rig, jig, and swimbait rods.

Fishing line is the ONLY item that physically comes in contact with every aspect of a fishing "system".....the reel, rod and hook/bait. Someone told me that many years ago and I've used nothing but Flouro and Braid ever since. Braid for most types of top water baits and Fluoro everything else.

life is short and there's never enough time on the water, use whatever make senses for you!